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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Man page of POPULARITY-CONTEST</TITLE>
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<H1>POPULARITY-CONTEST</H1>
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Section: (8)<BR>Updated: November 2001<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
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<A NAME="lbAB"> </A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
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popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages
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<A NAME="lbAC"> </A>
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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<B>popularity-contest</B>
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<A NAME="lbAD"> </A>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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The
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<B>popularity-contest</B>
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command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system,
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and prints the name of the most recently used executable program in that
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package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed
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time (ctime) to stdout.
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<P>
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When aggregated with the output of
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<B>popularity-contest</B>
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from many other systems, this information is valuable because it can be used
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to determine which Debian packages are commonly installed, used, or
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installed and never used. This helps Debian maintainers make decisions such
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as which packages should be installed by default on new systems.
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The resulting statistic is available from the project home page
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<B><A HREF="https://popcon.debian.org/">https://popcon.debian.org/</A></B>.
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Normally,
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<B>popularity-contest</B>
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is run from a
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<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cron">cron</A></B>(8)
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job,
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<B>/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest</B>,
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which automatically submits the results to Debian package maintainers
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(only once a week) according to the settings in
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<B>/etc/popularity-contest.conf</B>
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and
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<B>/usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf</B>.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
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The popularity-contest FAQ at
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<B>/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ</B>
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<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+popcon-largest-unused">popcon-largest-unused</A></B>(8),
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<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cron">cron</A></B>(8)
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Additional documentation is in
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<B>/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/</B>.
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<A NAME="lbAF"> </A>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
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Avery Pennarun <<A HREF="mailto:apenwarr@debian.org">apenwarr@debian.org</A>>.
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<P>
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<HR>
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<A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2>
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<DL>
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<DT id="1"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
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<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
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<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAE">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
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<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAF">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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</DL>
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<HR>
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This document was created by
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">man2html</A>,
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using the manual pages.<BR>
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Time: 00:06:15 GMT, March 31, 2021
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