On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 01:22:02AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org was heard to say: > file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s05s01.html#secDisplayFormat > says > If no packages are going to be > installed, outputs nothing. Otherwise, outputs a > %o Download 15 No string describing the total size of all > the package files which will be > Size installed (an estimate of how much needs > to be downloaded); for instance, “DL > size: 1000B”. > However, no matter which of > $ aptitude -F '%o %p' search ~U > $ aptitude -F '%o %p' search ~i > $ aptitude -F '%o %p' search ~nvlc > I do, aptitude always says > DL Size: 295kB
As the documentation says, "%o" outputs a string describing the total size of all the package files which will be installed. In this case, you have 295kB of downloads queued up ("aptitude install", for instance, would download 295kB of data). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org