And here's something to tell you how much space each INSTALLED package
takes up, sorted by size:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%-12{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" |sort -n
Note: this tells you about all the INSTALLED packages, so it will
include stuff you loaded after the OS, but not about EVERY pkg on the
cd.
You can use "rpm -e" to remove anything you don't need. rpm will tell
you if another pkg depends on it. Later, if you discover that you
really did need it, it's a simple matter to reinstall the pkg from cd.
-Adam
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Mike wrote:
>
> > First of all thanks to everyone with the help on the cd burner
> >
> >
> > now i am looking for a list of all the programs that are included
> > in Mandrake 7.0 with short decriptions ..
> >
> > is there such a list ??
>
> All the packages have a short description of them you can access by
> typing:
>
> rpm -qi <packagename> <---to query an installed package
>
> Example: rpm -qi postfix
>
> rpm -qpi <full filename> <---to query an rpm file
>
> Example: rpm -qpi postfix-19991231-3mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Now, it might not be pretty, but if you wanted to see the info on every
> package in the distribution with one command you could switch to the RPMs
> directory in the distribution and type:
>
> rpm -qpi * | more
>
> Or you could instead put the text into a file in your home directory that
> you can easily browse with less or a text editor, by typing:
>
> rpm -qpi * > ~/packageinfo
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> -Tom
