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Mohammad Etemaddar
Asked: 2013-06-30 04:41:11 +0800 CST

Determine the source of particular available package?

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Think you have a package which is installed or is available by apt or software manager. So you have it's repository already added. Now you need help another user add needed repository.

How can I determine the repository which that package is available from?

installation

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    apt-cache policy <pkgname>

    Example:

    apt-cache policy wine
wine:
  Installed: 1.6~rc3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.6~rc3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.6~rc3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.4.1-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages

    The version marked with *** is the one actually installed.

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  2. apt-cache showpkg something has a file field in the output. The ppa is shown as part of that file field.

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