Hello,

If you use Debian (but also Linux in general), you sometimes have to install series of packages, sometimes following instructions in some tutorial, for example.

apt-get install fotoxxx
apt-get purge something

apt-history makes it convenient to explore the APT log.

Check latest operations:

$ apt-history
365 apt-get install fotoxx
366 apt-get purge fotoxx
367 apt-get autoremove
368 apt-get purge darktable
369 apt-get autoremove
370 apt-get purge ufraw
371 apt-get install rawtherapee
372 apt-get install mtp-tools
373 apt-get install go-mtpfs
374 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade

You can examine a single operation, and see exactly which packages were automatically installed, uninstalled, etc.

$ apt-history 372
{
  'Start-Date': '2019-08-26  03:28:27',
  Commandline: 'apt-get install mtp-tools',
  'Requested-By': 'me (1000)',
  Install: 'mtp-tools:amd64 (1.1.16-2)',
  'End-Date': '2019-08-26  03:28:29'
}

Remove packages which were installed by this operation

sudo dpkg --purge `apt-history 372 Install --as-apt-arguments`

PS: Yep, it's my work, so feel free to leave comments here or there (on github) and I will take them into consideration.

Thank you.