The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu
open a terminal window and run the command
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}'
That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones on the bottom.
you can pipe(|} the output for last 10 by using | tail -n 10 at the end of the command
2 comments:
I had to insert \t${Status} to get it to work on Debian (mixed etch/lenny). Extremely useful to find out how to best free up some disk space. Thanks!
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2008/10/howto-cleanup-your-ubuntu-linux.html see this link
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