Can Fedora count it rpms?

[Alchemist]

2013/10/21 Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>

> On 10/20/2013 05:36 PM, Fred Erickson wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:45:05 +0000 (UTC)
> > Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:36:01 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> >>
> >>> rpm -qa | wc -l
> >>
> >>      Thanks! That told me 2377; does this number seem plausible?
> >>
> >
> > [fred at athbox-f18 ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
> > 2351
> > [fred at athbox-f18 ~]$ uname -r
> > 3.11.4-101.fc18.x86_64
> >
> > Note: I have developer packages and 3 desktops are installed.
> >
> I don't know what this is counting--I must have missed the first post.
> Anyway, I ran it in my pclos-kde-32, and go this:
>
> [doug at linux1 ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
> 2352
>
> So what is it that I have 2352 of?
>
> --doug
>
>
grep out fc19 or fc18 or so Fedora N versions, for possible dublicates (in
that case, next step package-cleanup)
rpm -qa | grep fcN | wc -l

or maybe you have a lot of installed devel's
rpm -qa | grep \\-devel | wc -l

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