On Tuesday 16 October 2012 11:46:01 Titanus Eramius wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:30:41 +0100 > > Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, all! > > I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am > > clearly using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in > > sundry different ways. > > > > Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in > > Debian (Squeeze?) > > 1. in main > > 2. in main, contrib and non-free > > > > I have an idea of roughly 20,000 in my head, but cannot remember why > > I think it and it may be vastly out. Nor into which of my two > > categories the figure falls, if by any miracle it is correct. > > > > Thanks, > > Lisi > > Maybe from Synaptic? It lists a total of packages it can fetch in the > bottom left corner. I have all three archives active + backports, > testing and unstable and Synaptic reports 43132 packages is available.
Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted to know. I have not got Synaptic installed, since I prefer the command line for package management. Perhaps the information is also available in aptitude's n-curses interface. I didn't think to look. :-( There is also probably a command line way to do it in either apt-get or aptitude. I just don't know it. :-( > But the question might be, what's a package, and what's a libary? Just > my thoughts though. D'oh! I had thought (or rather, clearly not thought) that for present purposes that wasn't all that significant. Though come to think of it, that may be why I had the figure of 20,000 in my head. Applications and not libraries. So I asked the wrong question anyway. Thanks for all the pointers! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210161204.57282.lisi.re...@gmail.com
