Re: making room

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <zorzella@conexware.com> writes:

> Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked
> for an option for the "dpkg -l", so that the size of each package
> would be shown, but found nothing.

There's no built in way.  However, I'd suggest something like:

% dpkg -L octave | xargs ls -lsd | awk '{sum+=$1} END{print sum}'
6114

So octave is using just less than 6 M of disk space, not counting any
extra files it created after being installed.

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