how can i tell when an RPM was installed?

[spanky]

is there an rpm command to tell me when a specific rpm was installed? i have a server which i thought had a certain version of apache installed, but apparently, it did not. when i go to try and install it, it tells me that another newer version of apache is already installed. i'm trying to find out when this newer version of apache was installed. can i do that with an RPM switch? thank you.

 

[cleverhandle]

Have you looked at the man page for rpm?

I'm not being snippy, I just don't have an RH box around to check. If it's possible, it's almost certain to be part of rpm -q.

 

[Nothinman]

Technically yes, but only as a side effect of the RPM transactions. You can ask for the installation transaction id for a specific package which just happens to be the epoch when the package was installed.

rpm -q --qf "%-20{NAME} %-20{INSTALLTID}\n" <packagename>