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just wondering for no particular reason if my linux box has less or more packages and commands then most (I'm guessing less). Heres my results:

packages (on arch linux probably not a very good way to determine anything):
238

commands:
1169 as root and 1168 as a normal user.

du:
1.536732 gb

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I dont know to find it out using APT?

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Don't know if there is a "good" way for debian put this works on my server: apt-cache search e >& file (e is the most common letter in the english language) Then open it up in emacs and M->

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Probably a better (untested) method for calculating number of installed packages on Debian-based systems would be

dpkg -l | wc -l

Minus 5.

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