I have Manjaro Xfce on my laptop. This installation was installed on Oct 31st 2021 on a clean partition.
Several days ago I discovered that there is a folder in my home folder called “history”. And in this folder there is a file called history.db. This is what I see if I check it with the file command:
[blueflame5@blueflame5-inspiron3521 history]$ pwd
/home/blueflame5/history
[blueflame5@blueflame5-inspiron3521 history]$ file history.db
history.db: SQLite 3.x database, last written using SQLite version 3036000, file counter 1, database pages 3, cookie 0x1, schema 4, UTF-8, version-valid-for 1
Properties show that the file was created on Nov 8th 2021, which means it was created only about a week after the OS was installed.
I don’t remember I installed SQLite specifically. The only possibility is that it was installed along with some other program, but I really can’t figure out what that program might be. I thought maybe Opera, which I installed a few weeks ago, but when I run Opera the list of active tasks doesn’t show sqlite3.
I don’t have many programs installed, and those that are present are pretty usual and common.
Is this mysterious file (histroy.db) a cause for concern, or should I just ignore it? Is there a way to determine which program installs and uses sqlite3?