Blog: 2023-07-18

List installed debian packages by size

dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n

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But what are the units here? kilobytes? probably. But would be nice to have units. Powershell style structured output could be useful here.

Nice browser of installed packages: dpkg --list

Journalctl shows all messages you can see by default: journalctl

Tail messages with journalctl with -f for follow:

journalctl -f

Thinking about recursive git clones. also how some command line tools are pretty much like functions, and how therefore a programming environment could be built up function by function rather than pulling in a huge package like python. But batteries included makes for a lot of ease