Re: A few questions about settings
On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:35 am, Rupert wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:34:15 -0500
>
> "Wathen, Metherion" <mwathen@bsadesign.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, I really appreciate for your help.
> > I have limited space on my harddrive is there a way to see how much space
> > a package is going to take before installing it?
>
> If you use aptitude (I'd recommend it) then you can tell it to show you
> that information:
>
> Options->UI Options->The display format for package views
>
> Change this to something like
>
> %c%a%M %p #%D %I %v%V
> ^^ ^^
> to get download size and installed size displayed.
>
do apt-cache show <package>, and you don't have to change anything.
ben
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