Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 07/09/13 19:02, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: >> >>> How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? >>> Google did not help me. >> >> An example: >> >> wget ftp://ftp.debian.o

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 09:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Sep 2013 at 19:02:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > gunzip Packages.gz > > > > > > grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l > > > > Hey! What's wrong with zgrep? :) >

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 18:49 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > > > > This doesn't give any information about the quan

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/7/13, Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Sep 2013 at 19:02:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> > >> > gunzip Packages.gz >> > >> > grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l >> >> Hey! What's wrong with zgrep? :) > > I was catering for those who have a

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 07 Sep 2013 at 19:02:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > gunzip Packages.gz > > > > grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l > > Hey! What's wrong with zgrep? :) I was catering for those who have a non-functioning "z" key, You try

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:06:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > > Google did not help me. > > An example: > > wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.g

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > > This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software > available from upstream, Which is not what the

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Curt
I must lack intellectual curiosity (as opposed to the curiosity cats demonstrate) because I don't care how many packages there are, unless one I want is missing, and then I'm writing my congressman. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:06:46 +0100, Brian wrote: >On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > >> How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? >> Google did not help me. > >An example: > > wget > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > gunzi

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-06 Thread Onur Aslan
I think best way to do this install sid and run: $ apt-cache stats Total package names: 52060 (1,041 k) Total package structures: 52060 (2,915 k) Normal packages: 40012 Pure virtual packages: 406 Single virtual packages: 4720 Mixed virtual packages: 773 Missing: 6149 Total distinct versi

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 02:34:52 +0200 sp113438 wrote: > Thanks! > > Synaptics says I have 41313 packages ready to install on my Sid system > which I updated today. > > > That is on my amd64 system, with main contrib and non-free included. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
Thanks! Synaptics says I have 41313 packages ready to install on my Sid system which I updated today. -- 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/20130906023452.

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:16 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? This doesn't give any information about the quantity of software available from upstream, since Debian does split the software from upstream to several packages. some distros don't do th

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:16:39 +0200 sp113438 wrote: > Hello, > > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > Google did not help me. > > Thanks! > > A GUI based answer is to open Synaptic, select the All header, and the number of packages available for the repositories you h

Re: How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? > Google did not help me. An example: wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz gunzip Packages.gz grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l -- To UNS

How many packages in Sid

2013-09-05 Thread sp113438
Hello, How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? Google did not help me. Thanks! -- 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/20130905221639.79b

Re: How many packages

2004-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 09:49 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Lots. I have almost 1800 installed. > > > > $ dpkg -l | wc > > 1755 15056 125393 > > you should filter the `dpkg -l` through grep to get installed packages: > > $ dpkg -l | grep ^.i | wc Good point. $ dpkg -l | grep ^ii

Re: How many packages

2004-11-01 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> Lots. I have almost 1800 installed. > > $ dpkg -l | wc > 1755 15056 125393 you should filter the `dpkg -l` through grep to get installed packages: $ dpkg -l | grep ^.i | wc -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

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2004-10-31 Thread Jim Hall
This message just showed up in my inbox. The original sender asked it be forwarded to the list. I have no idea how I and "vorlon" became involved. Jim Original Message Subject: How many packages Resent-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:01:10 -0600 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How many packages

2004-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
ler to download Sarge. I started two days ago > and since then packages are droping in and they are already almsot 600 > of them. You are on a dial-up line, right? Buy an ISO instead. Much higher "bandwidth", that way. > I have chosen only desktop manager (not server opti

How many packages

2004-10-31 Thread Reza
are droping in and they are already almsot 600 of them.  I have chosen only desktop manager (not server options) and my question is how many packages I should expect to be down loaded tottaly. Thank you for your help. Reza