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NAME

dpigs - Show which installed packages occupy the most space

SYNOPSIS

dpigs [options]

DESCRIPTION

dpigs sorts the installed packages by size and outputs the largest ones. Per default dpigs displays the largest 10 packages. You can change this value by using the -n option (see ``). The information is taken from the dpkg status file with grep-status(1).

OPTIONS

-n, --lines=N

Display the N largest packages on the system (default 10).

-s, --status=

FILE

Use

FILE

instead of the default dpkg status file (which is /var/lib/dpkg/status currently).

-S, --source

Display the largest source packages of binary packages installed on the system.

-H, --human-readable

Display package sizes in human-readable format (like ls -lh or du -h)

-h, --help

Display some usage information and exit.

AUTHOR

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the

General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, a copy of the

General Public License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

SEE ALSO

dpkg(8), grep-status(1)