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Re: [LUG] Upgrade from to Ubuntu 9.04

 

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:29:48 +0100
michael mortimore wrote:

> 2009/9/16 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > It might indeed be less painful, if you don't install 1001 things
> > that aren't in the standard Ubuntu repos. :D
> for that, put /usr/local on a separate partition and put anything you
> install manually there.

It's not the source-installed software that's the problem... it's the
tonne of PPA entries in my sources.list that reflect software installed
from .deb repos but have long since forgotten about.

Is there a nice way to find out which repo a given deb was installed
from?

Grant.

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