bionic (8) popularity-contest.8.gz

Provided by: popularity-contest_1.66ubuntu1_all bug

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 https://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>.