Re: How to show a number of available packages?

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com>]

I'm just a very curious guy...

On 7/7/05, Dexter <dexter2@nextra.sk> wrote:
> Well, I don't know, maybe they use different cache.
> But I'm curious, why do you need to know number of available packages?
> What is this information good for?
>    Dexter2
> 
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Thanks, but 'apt-cache stats' tells me that the number of listed
> > (Normal) packages (I run unstable) is 16286 while 'synaptic' puts that
> > number at 16486.
> >
> > malebo
> >
> > On 7/7/05, Dexter <dexter2@nextra.sk> wrote:
> > > see commands: "apt-cache" and "apt-get". Those are commands for
> > > searching and installing debian packages on command line. Maybe you can
> > > make some script of it. See manuals.
> > >    Dexter2
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 06:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Could someone tell me of commands that will help me see a number of
> > > > available packages. Currently I could only do that with 'synaptic'
> > > > which is all I use it for.
> > > >
> > > > malebo
> > > >
> >
> 
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