"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked > for an option for the "dpkg -l", so that the size of each package > would be shown, but found nothing.
There's no built in way. However, I'd suggest something like: % dpkg -L octave | xargs ls -lsd | awk '{sum+=$1} END{print sum}' 6114 So octave is using just less than 6 M of disk space, not counting any extra files it created after being installed. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .