Arch Linux package statistics
Contributing is as easy as installing the package - a weekly cron job will take care of the rest. You will be sending us a list of packages installed on your system, along with the architecture and mirror you use. This information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you, but it will help us prioritize our efforts and make Arch even better.
Getting started
- Install pkgstats by
pacman -Syu pkgstats
- Ensure the weekly timer is started:
systemctl start pkgstats.timer
- Check the timer status with
systemctl status pkgstats.timer
- For additional help see
pkgstats help
Searching for packages
The cli client can be used to search for packages and show the most popular matches:
$ pkgstats search firefox
firefox 63.53
firefox-developer-edition 6.30
firefox-i18n-de 3.32
firefox-i18n-en-us 2.65
firefox-ublock-origin 2.55
firefox-adblock-plus 2.07
firefox-i18n-fr 1.61
firefox-i18n-en-gb 1.52
firefox-nightly 1.35
firefox-i18n-ru 1.22
10 of 320 results
See more results at https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages#query=firefox
Comparing package statistics
The popularity of one or more packages can be queried:
$ pkgstats show firefox chromium epiphany konqueror
firefox 63.53
chromium 48.80
epiphany 16.33
konqueror 10.62
See more results at https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=chromium,epiphany,firefox,konqueror
Submitting your package data
While the systemd timer automatically submits your data, you may want to inspect the data that are being sent:
$ pkgstats submit --dump-json
{
"version": "3",
"system": {
"architecture": "x86_64_v3"
},
"os": {
"architecture": "x86_64"
},
"pacman": {
"mirror": "https://repos.archlinux.org/",
"packages": [
"a52dec",
...
"zziplib"
]
}
}
If you are just curious about the CPU architecture that pkgstats detects, simply run:
$ pkgstats arch cpu
x86_64_v3
Dokumentation
- See
pkgstats help
- Arch Linux Wiki
- pkgstats server API documentation
Development
Announcements
- pkgstats: contribution was never that easy
- pkgstats round two: take your vote and help improving Arch
- pkgstats now collects modules usage
Explore
- Browse the package statistics and lookup the popularity of packages.
- See some fun statistics and see which packages are the most popular in their category.
- Use the API to write your own clients