> > box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and
> > find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed
> > *before* having to download it.
>
> Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed
> size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from the
> ls-lR.gz in the root directory.
Actually, as I understand it, "Size" is the size of the debian package
and "Installed-Size" is (supposed to be) the size once installed.
(I originally requested "size" and "md5sum" for sanity checking in dftp.)
Brian
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