popularity-contest(8)

NAME

   popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

   popularity-contest

DESCRIPTION

   The   popularity-contest   command  gathers  information  about  Debian
   packages installed on the system, and  prints  the  name  of  the  most
   recently  used  executable  program  in  that  package  as  well as its
   last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed time  (ctime)  to
   stdout.

   When  aggregated  with the output of popularity-contest from many other
   systems, this information  is  valuable  because  it  can  be  used  to
   determine  which  Debian  packages  are  commonly  installed,  used, or
   installed and never used.  This helps Debian maintainers make decisions
   such as  which packages should be installed by default on new systems.

   The  resulting  statistic  is  available  from  the  project  home page
   http://popcon.debian.org/.

   Normally,   popularity-contest   is   run   from   a    cron(8)    job,
   /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest,  which  automatically  submits  the
   results to Debian package maintainers (only once a week)  according  to
   the settings in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and /usr/share/popularity-
   contest/default.conf.

SEE ALSO

   The  popularity-contest  FAQ  at  /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ
   popcon-largest-unused(8), cron(8)

   Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.

AUTHOR

   Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.

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