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>.

Debian/GNU Linux                                  November 2001                            POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)