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>.