What’s that?

LoST is a little tool that helps you track where your 10+GB are LoST after installing these 1000+ little tools that can be found on the internet, just to try…

How does it works?

This tool is similar to the UNIX command ‘du’, but it can do a lot more.

What are the features?

• It shows you hierarchically the space used by each directory.
• It lets you delete/move the files/directories directly.
• It can exclude the directories you are not interested in before processing.
• It can do a ‘diff’ with your installed packages (RPM, DEB, …) to know which files were installed without RPM, DEB, …

NOTHING! LoST is free, covered by the GPL.

What is required to use it?

You need LINUX (RedHat for me), QT (V1.44 for me) and KDE (V1.1 for me).

I love screenshots...

Download:

Current version        TarBall of LoST (lost-x.yy.tar.gz)
                               RPM of LoST
                               Source RPM of LoST

ChangeLog
25-aug1999         V0.97               Add RPM.
19-aug-1999        V0.96              Corrected a compile problem on some redhat systems. Sort now works, thanks to Rik Hemsley [rik@rikkus.demon.co.uk]
16-aug-1999        V0.95              Last beta realease. Support for RPM V3.0
21-jun-1999         V0.92               Update better, bug fixes
15-jun-1999         V0.91               Better RPM support, bug fixes, more icons
11-jun-1999         V0.90               Initial version

Bugs:
No one known at the moment. This is due to:    - There is no one, which I personally don't believe :-)
                                                                        - No one is reporting them, which I believe a lot more.
                                                                        - No one is interested in testing and using LoST, which I don't believe at all
So, you have understand what I mean: REPORT BUGS please if you want LoSt to be of better quality. Enhancements are welcomed (What functionalities do you wnat LoSt to have???)

TODO
There is little things to do before V1.0 can be shipped.
- Add Debian package manager support. I've no knowledge about that, so if there is a volunteer to do that?

How do I install?

Using TarBall (tar.gz file):
Just do
    tar xzvf lost-0.9.tar.gz
in whatever directory you want.

Then issue
    configure
And then
    make install
That’s it.

Using RPM:
just do rpm -i lost-XXX.rpm
and that's it.

Then go in KDE program launcher, in utilities, you should found ‘LoST - The Lost Space Tracker’

For new features, bug fixes, etc… contact me:

Cuendet@linkvest.ch