better way to organize packages?

mma8x · 10-30-2005, 10:49 PM

i'm trying to find a way to sort installed packages by size, date installed, etc; can't find a way to do this with kpackage, synaptic, or aptitude. any other ways to do this?

makuyl · 10-31-2005, 07:28 AM

By size: dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n' | sort -n
Not sure about date and I'm not on a debian box now, you do the googling

archtoad6 · 11-21-2005, 08:21 PM

Cool, worked on my SimplyMEPIS box. Time to RTFM for dpkg-query.

BTW,

Code:

dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n' \
 | sort -n                                                  \
 | awk  '{printf "%8d  %s\n",$1,$2}'                        \
 | less

gave a really nice output