How can I get a list of installed programs and corresponding size of each in Ubuntu?
- by Philip Baker
I would like to have a list of the installed software on my machine, with the disk space consumed by them.
A previous answer here says "you can do this via GUI in Synaptic". This doesn't mean anything to me. I don't know what GUI is, and when I click on Synaptic, I do not get anything like the display shown in the answer, i.e. with "Settings ? Preferences" and "Columns and Fonts".
In Windows, you just select 'Programs and Applications' in the Control Panel, and the list comes up immediately, with sizes.
Is there something similar and simple with Ubuntu? Could the size of each program be included on the list of installed software? This would be the most obvious place to put it.