On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:30:41 +0100 Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all! > I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am > clearly using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in > sundry different ways. > > Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in > Debian (Squeeze?) > 1. in main > 2. in main, contrib and non-free > > I have an idea of roughly 20,000 in my head, but cannot remember why > I think it and it may be vastly out. Nor into which of my two > categories the figure falls, if by any miracle it is correct. > > Thanks, > Lisi > > Maybe from Synaptic? It lists a total of packages it can fetch in the bottom left corner. I have all three archives active + backports, testing and unstable and Synaptic reports 43132 packages is available. But the question might be, what's a package, and what's a libary? Just my thoughts though. Cheers :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121016124601.0f492...@asrock.local.aptget.dk