I would like to have available all history of software installation on my PC (Ubuntu).
But by default Ubuntu keeps 'apt-get'-logs only for last 12 months. After that time 'logrotate' will delete older logs.
To fix it you should change a file '/etc/logrotate.d/apt':
But by default Ubuntu keeps 'apt-get'-logs only for last 12 months. After that time 'logrotate' will delete older logs.
To fix it you should change a file '/etc/logrotate.d/apt':
diff --git a/logrotate.d/apt b/logrotate.d/apt index 9a6e5d1..3021b99 100644 --- a/logrotate.d/apt +++ b/logrotate.d/apt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ } /var/log/apt/history.log { - rotate 12 + rotate 1200 monthly compress missingokSo for now the logs will be kept during 100 years (1200 months)! :)