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I always wondered, how to check the popularity of some packages in Ubuntu. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have such a nice popcon-page as Debian. But Steffen Moeller gave me this line, which looks for the statistics for the package gwyddion:

$ wget -O - http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote.gz 2> /dev/null | gunzip | egrep 'gwyddion' 

which will produce some output like

 <some_number> <packagename> <nr-of_installations> <nr_of_votes> <nr_of_old> <nr_of_recent> <nr_of_no-files>

Great!