If I were to install every package in the repositiories ...

[josephellengar]

that was possible together, how much space would it take up? Just curious

[lykwydchykyn]

Seems like my mirror of just the binary repos is around 20 Gb, but that's compressed data. I would guess 40-60 GB? Just a wild guess.

[Frak]

Prob about 50-70GB.

[josephellengar]

Wow. That's a lot smaller than I expected. I was thinking you'd say 1-2 tb.

[I-75]

Looking at OS disc, they sell the complete repositories for Ubuntu 8.04. It says it is 19 GB.

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/linux/ubuntu/repo.html?ad=distrowatch

"Product Description
This Ubuntu 8.04 Software Library is a 5 DVD set with 19GB of software for the PC platform. The DVDs contains all of the packages from the officially-supported (main repository) and community-maintained (universe repository) mirrors, as of July 1st, 2008."

[tealio]

you have to consider that many packages conflict and/or fill the same role, so technically i don't think you could...

[josephellengar]

Yeah, that's why I said in the first post "that I could together," for this I was thinking the latest version of each. Does the complete repositories on this disk only count the packages that are canonical supported?

[MaxIBoy]

20 gigs, compressed?

Time to make my mount point "/" partitions a LOT smaller.

[Polygon]

20 gigs, compressed?

Time to make my mount point "/" partitions a LOT smaller.

deb packages are compressed, so extracted they may be a lot bigger.