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Re: package



On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kreshna D. Armand wrote:

> How do I know the size of each packages which I want to install?
> If I use SuSE or RH, you can query it. If I use Debian, by what way I
> can do the query of the .deb packages?

In dselect you can press twice 'i' and then you will see something like
this:

  Package: adduser
  Priority: required
  Section: base
  Installed-Size: 58
  ...

Or if you have downloaded the package, you can get the info with 

  dpkg --info package.deb

Martin

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