{"id":8890,"date":"2024-10-20T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2024-10-20T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:10:33","slug":"viewing-package-installation-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/documentation\/troubleshooting\/packagelog\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing Package Installation Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from VisualGDB 6.0R4, you can see the full log of packages installed or removed via the VisualGDB Package Manager, or anywhere else in the VisualGDB GUI.<\/p>\n<p>This covers the following package types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toolchains<\/li>\n<li>BSPs<\/li>\n<li>Embedded Debug Packages<\/li>\n<li>Test Frameworks<\/li>\n<li>Auxiliary tool packages (e.g. CMake)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The log can be viewed via Tools-&gt;VisualGDB-&gt;Manage VisualGDB Packages-&gt; Package Installation Log <strong>(1)<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8891\" src=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1186\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log.png 1186w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/log-768x514.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The log shows the exact time when you installed or removed a package, what version was installed before, and allows reverting to the new or the old version by clicking the version link <strong>(2)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you encounter strange problems after installing some package updates, you can use it conveniently revert them, and narrow down a specific version that is causing trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The log is stored in the <strong>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\VisualGDB\\PackageLog.xml<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from VisualGDB 6.0R4, you can see the full log of packages installed or removed via the VisualGDB Package Manager,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}