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How can I sort packages by file size when searching the repositories?

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I'm trying to look at some statistics on the size of packages in the Ubuntu repositories, and I'm hoping to sort my searches of packages in the repositories by file size. Is there a command that will let me look at file sizes of packages in the repositories/cache, sort them by file size, etc? `apt-cache stats' doesn't provide all the information I'd like.

I'm interested in only the official repositories at the moment, and I'm interested in sorting all packages in the repositories, not simply the ones I have installed.

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answered 2 Years ago ndeecru · Accepted Answer

That should work:

apt-cache -f dumpavail | 

egrep '^Package:|^Size:' | 

sed -e 's,Size: ,,' -e 's,Package: ,

,' | 

awk '{RS=""; FS="

"} {print $1, $2}' | 

sort -k2 -n

I'm not proud of it but that was done in a bit of a hurry :)