Read 3 year old bug, fiddled around with 'dlocate' and 'printf' and
came up with a shell function (one-liner, easy to copy, paste & run):
dpigs_human_readable() { dpigs | while read size pname ; do
desc=$(dlocate -s $pname | grep 'Description: ' | sed 's/Description: //') ;
printf '%8sK %-25s %s\n' $size "$pname" "$desc" ; done }
Which on my system outputs:
dpigs_human_readable
106924K openoffice.org-core full-featured office productivity suite --
arch-dependent files
84084K foomatic-db-gutenprint OpenPrinting printer support - database for
Gutenprint printer drivers
83716K kde-icons-oxygen Oxygen icon theme for KDE 4
74376K openjdk-6-jre-headless OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
(headless)
66728K wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer
65480K sun-java5-bin Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
(architecture dependent files)
58232K linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Linux 2.6.26 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
54148K linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 Linux 2.6.24 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
44724K openoffice.org-common full-featured office productivity suite --
arch-independent files
43720K qemu fast processor emulator
NB: the 'printf' above isn't smart about field widths. I put 25 chars
length per Debian package name, but I've seen one 55 chars long.
Change that 25 as needed.
Might be better than nothing, pending a fix...
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