Re: Number of Debian packages available.
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:30:41 +0100
Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all!
> I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am
> clearly using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in
> sundry different ways.
>
> Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in
> Debian (Squeeze?)
> 1. in main
> 2. in main, contrib and non-free
>
> I have an idea of roughly 20,000 in my head, but cannot remember why
> I think it and it may be vastly out. Nor into which of my two
> categories the figure falls, if by any miracle it is correct.
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi
>
>
Maybe from Synaptic? It lists a total of packages it can fetch in the
bottom left corner. I have all three archives active + backports,
testing and unstable and Synaptic reports 43132 packages is available.
But the question might be, what's a package, and what's a libary? Just
my thoughts though.
Cheers :)
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