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When managing packages on a Linux system, it's crucial to maintain clean and manageable software installations. Linux distributions use different package managers, but all have mechanisms to review past transactions, an excellent way to troubleshoot installation issues, verify changes, or simply audit installed software. In this blog, we'll explore how to use dnf history on Fedora and similar distributions, while also covering equivalent commands in apt for Debian/Ubuntu systems, and zypper for openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise. dnf (Dandified YUM) is the default package manager on Fedora and other RPM-based distributions like CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.