On Ma, 16 oct 12, 11:30:41, Lisi 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 Source or binary packages? If you consider source packages then Open Office counts as one package, but if you consider binary packages it will be a lot more (especially since Debian Maintainers have the good habit of splitting big packages to accommodate various use cases. > 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. http://www.debian.org/intro/about mentions "over 29000". aptitude gets me 43004 binary packages for squeeze (i386, of which contrib 271 and non-free 583) so those should be source packages: $ aptitude search ~Astable | wc -l 43004 $ aptitude search ~Astable~scontrib | wc -l 271 $ aptitude search ~Astable~snon-free | wc -l 583 (~s works because the archive component is part of the section name for packages not in main) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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