Can't you something like this, to get the install time and date. rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name} %{version}%{release} %{installtime:date} %{Summary} \n' The --queryformat has a bunch of options, I am not familiar with all of them. I had done that a long time back. -- Prasad "If everything is coming your way, then you are in the wrong lane" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060403/41e6fe23/attachment.htm