On 16/10/12 11:30, Lisi wrote: > Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available in Debian > (Squeeze?) > >From doing: for i in main contrib non-free; do echo $i:; curl -s ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/$i/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 | bunzip2 -c | grep Package: | sort -u | wc -l ;done I get: main: 28128 contrib: 182 non-free: 383 All a bit unscientific, but it might suit your needs