Let's Count the Installed Packages!

[KGIII]

I meant to share this earlier. It was published much earlier, but then I had to leave for a few minutes. When I returned, my scatterbrain didn't remember to share it.

How To: Generate a List of Installed Applications in Linux • Linux Tips

This expanded article will explain how to generate a list of installed applications for multiple distros, in order to be more complete.

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Now, the count could possibly end up slightly off - but that's not actually the point. The point is to share the commands and maybe help people get just a little more fluent in the terminal. I looked and I didn't find a ton of packages with an 'ii' in the name. So, the count should be fairly accurate. Still, it's a fun little exercise to see some more about processing text in the terminal.

As always, I absolutely love the feedback I get.

 

[craigevil]

For those with either neofetch or inxi installed both will show packages installed.
Packages: 2326 apt: 2311 flatpak: 5 snap: 10

Another way to do it is:

sudo dpkg-query -f '${binary:Package}\n' -W | wc -l

Which in my case shows: 2311

 

[f33dm3bits]

Also this is an unnecessary use of cat.

cat Documents/installed_apps.txt | grep ii | wc -l

Can be done like this as well but you probably already know that?

grep ii Documents/installed_apps.txt | wc -l

 

[KGIII]

Yup. I was really just trying to introduce the commands. Even the end results aren't necessarily accurate, it's just to play around with the terminal for a bit. You don't even need to have the installed_apps.txt file.

 

[Nik-Ken-Bah]

Yup. I was really just trying to introduce the command

Thank you and appreciated by this non-geek, geek.
I have a funny way of learning things that make them stick longer in memory.

 

[KGIII]

Thank you and appreciated by this non-geek, geek.
I have a funny way of learning things that make them stick longer in memory.

I try to make them relatable and interesting. Something you can do to actually see what's going on - but not overwhelming, just a small bite. The ultimate goal is for people looking for those types of things to learn a variety of commands. Ideally, people will find the site via search engines.