flatpak-history - Man Page
Show history
Synopsis
flatpak history [OPTION...]
Description
Shows changes to the flatpak installations on the system. This includes installs, updates and removals of applications and runtimes.
By default, both per-user and system-wide installations are shown. Use the --user, --installation or --system options to change this.
The information for the history command is taken from the systemd journal, and can also be accessed using e.g. journalctl MESSAGE_ID=c7b39b1e006b464599465e105b361485
Options
The following options are understood:
- -h, --help
Show help options and exit.
- -u, --user
Show changes to the user installation.
- --system
Show changes to the default system-wide installation.
- --installation=NAME
Show changes to the installation specified by NAME among those defined in /etc/flatpak/installations.d/. Using --installation=default is equivalent to using --system.
- --since=TIME
Only show changes that are newer than the time specified by TIME.
TIME can be either an absolute time in a format like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, or a relative time like "2h", "7days", "4days 2hours".
- --until=TIME
Only show changes that are older than the time specified by TIME.
- --reverse
Show newest entries first.
- -v, --verbose
Print debug information during command processing.
- --ostree-verbose
Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
- --columns=FIELD,...
Specify what information to show about each ref. You can list multiple fields, or use this option multiple times.
Append :s[tart], :m[iddle], :e[nd] or :f[ull] to column names to change ellipsization.
Fields
The following fields are understood by the --columns option:
- time
Show when the change happened
- change
Show the kind of change
- ref
Show the ref
- application
Show the application/runtime ID
- arch
Show the architecture
- branch
Show the branch
- installation
Show the affected installation.
This will be either the ID of a Flatpak installation, or the path to a temporary OSTree repository.
- remote
Show the remote that is used.
This will be either the name of a configured remote, or the path to a temporary OSTree repository.
- old-commit
Show the previous commit. For pulls, this is the previous HEAD of the branch. For deploys, it is the previously active commit
- commit
Show the current commit. For pulls, this is the HEAD of the branch. For deploys, it is the active commit
- url
Show the remote url
- user
Show the user doing the change.
If this is the system helper operating as root, also show which user triggered the change.
- tool
Show the tool that was used.
If this is the system helper, also show which tool was used to triggered the change.
- all
Show all columns
- help
Show the list of available columns
Note that field names can be abbreviated to a unique prefix.