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	qwerty12	2008-11-12 , 16:36
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Originally Posted by lardman

I thought the application author had to manually fill in that field in the control file? In which case it's not calculated on-the-fly so it's anyone's guess

That's if the package is made by hand (ar, dpkg-deb --build etc) and not using debhelper like it should be

(Installed-Size is filled out when dh_gencontrol is run as part of debian/rules).

To calculate the installed-size manually (for those diehards that do still make packaged by hand) : "ar x foo.deb data.tar.gz ; mkdir tmp ; tar -C tmp -xzf data.tar.gz ; du -sb tmp ; rm -rf rmp data.tar.gz "

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