Sort installed rpms by decreasing size.

rpm -qa --qf "%-10{SIZE} %-30{NAME}\n" | sort -nr | less

It's all said in the title.

Sample Output

406081273  gcc-debuginfo                 
245120792  openoffice.org-core           
166575501  qt-doc                        
151034561  AdobeReader_enu               
112425640  texlive-texmf-fonts           
111882797  glibc-common                  
108660975  kernel                        
108517572  kernel                        
108498500  kernel                        
96831952   gutenprint-foomatic           
93285230   intel-iforte101021            
92981934   glibc-debuginfo               
87494563   VirtualBox-3.1                
86433623   compat-gcc-34-c++             
83807713   java-1.6.0-openjdk            
73147186   wine-core                     
65063553   libgcj                        
60059053   valgrind                      
59977177   wireshark                     
56262506   xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs      
53597279   google-chrome-beta            
52704734   thunderbird                   
49434288   qt-x11                        
48560661   jre                           
48202503   kdelibs                       
48041336   chromium-libs                 
47392883   openoffice.org-langpack-ja_JP 
46820236   qt-x11                        
46339569   gimp                          
44939255   kdelibs3                      
44228134   scribus                       
43433728   java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel      
42958608   boost-devel                   
41381019   evolution
[...]

By: betsubetsu

2010-04-14 07:28:41

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