Number of Packages?

[leadwt]

Hi,

I have some 1549 packages installed and I would call myself a 'casual home user' .

Out of interest:

How many do you have

Is there an absolute maximum and minimum

What ones, that are installed by default, can safely be removed

It seems to me that more and more apps are tied in to an ever growing family of packages (i.e modules) and that the term 'system bloat' springs to mind. That makes me shudder as Windoze is the leader in this field or so I thought.

Thanks.

[JontheEchidna]

Re: Number of Packages?

I have 1,365 packages, though this is a fairly new install. I never really get over 1600, though.

There is no maximum, (aside from the size of your hard drive) but you do at least have to have the dependencies of ubuntu-minimal for a functioning linux install.

What can be removed depends on your computer. I'd go through the applications menu and remove things I'll probably never use, if I were you.

[vinnywright]

Re: Number of Packages?

Hi,

I have some 1549 packages installed and I would call myself a 'casual home user' .

Out of interest:

How many do you have


Thanks.

I have 2,463 installed and counting ...... ....... I never seam to remove anything even if I no longer am using it......

VINNY

[Ole Juul]

Re: Number of Packages?

On an 8.04 install, I see 1572 installed. I'm pretty sloppy about keeping it clean, although I do tend to uninstall things that don't work. Hehe, actually it's been a while since I looked and there's 63 packages upgradable. Tut tut. I guess I should get on it. My problem is that I can't tell the difference between an upgraded and and un-upgraded package. Besides I don't normally reboot my machine so it could easily be a month or two before some of the "up"grades take effect.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Number of Packages?

2,069

And I try about everything except KitchenSink 1.0 and I'm constantly deleting and adding packages as I play with them. I did some house cleaning earlier today, so I may have removed a couple dozen ... stuff like "Factor", and older version of VirtualBox, some tar based packages, etc.

That is one of the joys of Linux, especially Kubuntu and the huge repository. It's so easy to add and remove packages.

[kyonides]

Re: Number of Packages?

Whoa!

You removed Factor? What kind of mysterious force did manipulate you?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Number of Packages?

I'm going to install their upgrade!
(Their first beta wouldn't compile to an ELF binary for me).

[kubicle]

Re: Number of Packages?

1.235 packages

There is no maximum, (aside from the size of your hard drive) but you do at least have to have the dependencies of ubuntu-minimal for a functioning linux install.

That's not entirely true. Some dependencies of ubuntu-minimal are not needed for a functioning linux install, and some dependencies can be replaced by alternatives. But of course if one doesn't know which are essential, it's safer to make sure ubuntu-minimal is installed.

[Rog131]

Re: Number of Packages?

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A tool:

/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/README.gz

DEBIAN PACKAGE POPULARITY CONTEST - Avery Pennarun <*****>
=================================

This package contains a script, /usr/sbin/popularity-contest, which
generates a list of the packages installed on your system, in order of
most-recently-used to least-recently-used. The simplest way to use this
information is to help clean up your hard drive by removing unused packages.

For example,
popularity-contest | grep '<OLD>'
will show you a list of packages you haven't used in a while. Note that
this output isn't totally accurate: some packages appear "old" but you can't
remove them because other (non-old) packages depend on them. Shared library
packages are particularly bad this way because it's impossible to tell when
a library was last used.

The popularity-contest output looks like this:...

man popcon-largest-unused

popcon-largest-unused(8) popcon-largest-unused(8)

NAME
popcon-largest-unused - List size of unused packages

SYNTAX
popcon-largest-unused

DESCRIPTION
Based on the list of unused packages reported by popularity-contest, this program extract the package
size from the APT cache, and list the unused packages sorted by size.

FILES
/var/log/popularity-contest

Statistics > Ubuntu Popularity Contest


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Turning the "Recommended" off will help.

Recommended packages installed by default

In accordance with the Debian Policy Manual (which says "The 'Recommends' field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations"), the package management system now installs packages listed in the Recommends: field of other installed packages as well as Depends: by default. If you want to avoid this for specific packages, use apt-get --no-install-recommends; if you want to make this permanent, set APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Be aware that this may result in missing features in some programs.

(This change was made in Ubuntu 8.10.)

[oshunluvr]

Re: Number of Packages?

1423 - and growing

apt-get (and synaptic) tell you if you have orphaned packages. In synaptic - it's Auto-removable and if you're in a terminal, sudo apt-get autoremove removes.