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List your largest installed packages.

Terminal - List your largest installed packages.
wajig large
2009-04-19 20:26:26
User: udim
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List your largest installed packages.

Requires the "wajig" package to be installed.

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dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
2009-10-25 03:23:51
User: raspi
Functions: sort
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List installed deb packages by size
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dpigs
2009-10-26 20:38:17
User: xrm0
Tags: Debian sort perl dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

dpigs is in the package debian-goodies (debian/ubuntu)

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dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done
2009-10-12 14:57:54
User: pykler
Functions: bash cut du echo read sed tail tr xargs
Tags: Debian wajig
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List your largest installed packages.

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the

| sort -rn

which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side

Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;)

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sed -ne '/^Package: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;h;};/^Installed-Size: \(.*\)/{s//\1/;G;s/\n/ /;p;}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -rn
2009-10-19 19:01:17
User: arcege
Functions: sed sort
Tags: Debian sort sed dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

Use the hold space to preserve lines until data is needed.

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awk '{if ($1 ~ /Package/) p = $2; if ($1 ~ /Installed/) printf("%9d %s\n", $2, p)}' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -n | tail
2010-12-14 14:59:42
User: gb38
Functions: awk sort
Tags: Debian sort sed dpkg
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List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)
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What others think

This is for systems using apt: debian/ubuntu.

Comment by bwoodacre 161 weeks and 4 days ago

slick

Comment by linuxrawkstar 161 weeks and 4 days ago

Holy smokes! Open Arena anyone?

mysql-server-5.0 88,272 installed

evolution-common 95,080 installed

ia32-libs 105,036 installed

linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic 108,676 installed

openoffice.org-core 119,044 installed

openarena-data 276,268 installed

Comment by linuxrawkstar 161 weeks and 4 days ago

The following packages will be REMOVED:

fgfs-base flightgear gcc-snapshot linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic quackle

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

After this operation, 884MB disk space will be freed.

Thanks for saving me a gig of space!

Comment by hank 160 weeks and 6 days ago

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