Re: directory tree and .deb's

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

G. Kaplan <gkaplan@castle.net> writes:
 
> Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages
> file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all
> (or a preselected subset of)  packages by destination directory. Where
> can I find this information without actually installing the package.

Hi,
     You can not get this information directly from the Packages
file.  You can look at the .deb file with zless and find a listing
similar to an ls -l listing of all files and directories the packages
installs.  Calculating the disk storage requirement for a set of
packages by this method would be quite tedious.

Bob
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