Re: package sizes

Guy (and similarly Stephen Pitts) writes > Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed > size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from the > ls-lR.gz in the root directory. > Thanks for replying. But if that is so, why does the contrib/ version of th

Re: package sizes

Whoops, I didn't include my earlier message. But the gist of it was in my new one, and so it probably wouldn't have been good netiquette anyway... Tony Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: package sizes

Thanks to those who have taken the time to reply to my earlier query (included below). My situation is that I am downloading onto a non-linux (and so (?) no dpkg) system, and from there (with some effort) on to my linux box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and find out how big a pa

package sizes

I notice that in the contrib/Packages file there is information on the installed-size of the packages. Is there a way of finding out that piece of information about the mainstream packages before downloading/installing them? Tony Ware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS