methods to download all the available packages for x86-hardy

[Fred Roller]

Wu Zhou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing some statistical analysis on the Ubuntu packages. Do we have
> methods to download all the available packages for a specific Ubuntu
> version and machine?
>
> Also, anybody can give a basic prediction about how many packages are
> there, and how many disk spaces are needed to store them, is 20G enough?
> Many thanks!
>
> Best,
> Wu
>
>   
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599479

Should get you started.  size=50+ Gb I believe.

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