Re: Number of Debian packages available.

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 16 October 2012 11:55:55 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 16 Oct 2012 at 11:30:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > 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
>
> Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to have only the line
>
>    deb <your_mirror> squeeze non-free
>
> Then
>
>    apt-get update
>
> and look at the output.
>
> Add "contrib" to the line above and repeat, Do the same with "main" added.
> Do sums.

Thanks!

Lisi