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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:29:58 +0100, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That would tell you which repositories you can install packages from, but it doesn't tell you which package came from which repository, which is what I understood Grant was asking for.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Mortimore wrote:On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:52:34 +0100, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Is there a nice way to find out which repo a given deb was installed from?closest i can find is apt-cache show [package] but it doesn't have anything handy like the url of the repository, so I don't know.On ubuntu if you do cat /etc/apt/sources.list this is where apt looks to find out where to download stuff, I think its the same for debian given that ubuntu is derived from debian (or something like that).
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