Undoing a recent update

[aandrews]

Earlier today (I think!) I OK'd a bundle of updates and now the "switcher", which previously allowed applications to be dragged to another workspace tab, is messed up. Previously the same desktop contents was reflected on each workspace. Now the others are devoid of anything.

How can I un-do a recent update? And if not, is there documentation associated with the release of general bundled updates that are done periodically? In other words, can I at least find out what was done to screw up my desktop so?

[Ms. Daisy]

You can use synaptic package manager. If you look under "File" then "History" you'll see what you installed today. Then you could remove each update to see which resolves the problem.

[mc4man]

You can use synaptic package manager. If you look under "File" then "History" you'll see what you installed today. Then you could remove each update to see which resolves the problem.

I believe Synaptic only keeps a history of packages installed thru synaptic, one of the good reasons to use it instead of cli or software-updater

Earlier today (I think!) I OK'd a bundle of updates and now the "switcher", which previously allowed applications to be dragged to another workspace tab, is messed up. Previously the same desktop contents was reflected on each workspace. Now the others are devoid of anything.

How can I un-do a recent update? And if not, is there documentation associated with the release of general bundled updates that are done periodically? In other words, can I at least find out what was done to screw up my desktop so?

You may want to note what ubuntu release & what session you are using & solve your issue rather than try to backtrack updates
(unless you used synaptic it can be a little bit of a chore to find - you could run this in a terminal & likely figure out based on date & time

cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep 'status installed'

[Ms. Daisy]

I believe Synaptic only keeps a history of packages installed thru synaptic

Aha- I didn't know that!

[haqking]

doesnt

cat /var/log/apt/history.log

store it also ? I dont have access to a apt based machine right now to check though

[Ms. Daisy]

doesnt

cat /var/log/apt/history.log

store it also ? I dont have access to a apt based machine right now to check though

It does indeed.