Re: package sizes
Thanks to those who have taken the time to reply to my earlier query (included below). My situation is that I am downloading onto a non-linux (and so (?) no dpkg) system, and from there (with some effort) on to my linux 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. I definitely know how to find out how big the .deb file is, as is stated in the Packages files. But I'd like the same sort of information as is available in the contrib.Packages file. I appreciate that those with massive hard drives may not be so interested, so if there is no easier way than using the ftp option then so be it... Cheers, Tony Ware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Whoops, I didn't include my earlier message. But the gist of it was in my new one, and so it probably wouldn't have been good netiquette anyway... Tony Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Guy (and similarly Stephen Pitts) writes 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. Thanks for replying. But if that is so, why does the contrib/ version of the Packages file contain both a 'Size' field and an 'installed-size' field for most of the packages? Cheers, Tony. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Actually I was totally wrong before. The Size field gives the size of the actual .deb file (in bytes). The Installed-Size field gives the amount of disk space required to install the package (in kbytes). See the dpkg Programmer's Manual 4.2.11 and 4.2.20 for more details. Because the Installed-Size field was introduced with the new source packaging scheme, only packages released in the last 3-4 months have it. Only a few of the packages in stable are newer than that. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
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 ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package sizes
I notice that in the contrib/Packages file there is information on the installed-size of the packages. Is there a way of finding out that piece of information about the mainstream packages before downloading/installing them? Tony Ware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
If you use dselect with the ftp option, then you get the installed size of packages during the install phase. You also have an option to turn down a download on any particular file. Do you also want that informtion in the select phase of dselect? Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that in the contrib/Packages file there is information on the installed-size of the packages. Is there a way of finding out that piece of information about the mainstream packages before downloading/installing them? -- kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does dselect give package sizes?
I installed 0.93r6 but did not see where dselect gave the disk space used by packages. This is obviously a very important piece of information. If it was obviously right in front of me I am sorry for wasting people's time. Thanks Nathan Salwen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
