On Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:14 PM, Daniel Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> package: dpkg > version: 1.10.11 Just out of interest, why? That version of dpkg is over a year old, and is not currently present in any of stable, testing or unstable. > There is no way to easily get a listing of installed packages with > sizes so that one can clean up a Debian system which is running out of > room. Using dpkg itself, possibly not. The man page of the grep-status tool (from the grep-dctrl package), however, contains an example invocation to do precisely that: grep-status -FStatus -sInstalled-Size,Package -n "install ok installed" | paste -sd " \n" | sort -n Regards, Adam

