On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:46:01PM +0200, Titanus Eramius wrote: > 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. According to my reading of the manual: aptitude search '~smain' and aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free' should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the first and only 626 for the second, so my search-fu is failing me today. > > 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. Everything's a package, though it'd make sense to remove virtual packages from the list.
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