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Saxtheowl
Asked: 2019-09-30 09:11:26 +0800 CST

How to know the size of a package

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Lets say I want to install the gcc package using sudo apt-get install gcc but before I want to know the size of it, is there a command for that ?

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  1. Best Answer

    If you run

    sudo apt install gcc

    you will get a prompt showing the packages to be installed and required space, asking if you want to continue.

    To see the download size of a specific package you can run e.g.

    apt show gcc
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