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How to sort installed packages by date in Ubuntu
You can see the install log history in /var/log/apt/history.log, but apt do not keep track of date. But there is still ways to see the installation date of a package. /var/lib/dpkg/info/$packagename.list is created during the installation of the project. So, if you want to see the installed date of a package(say nginx), you need to run the following command
ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/nginx.list
To see the list of recently installed package, you can do this
ls -hlt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
you can use -r option to sort in reverse order