How to tell which repositories provide which packages?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 20:31, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> This will give you your installed version, the candidate version
> that's available (if any), and the sources for the various versions:
>
> apt-cache policy PACKAGENAME
>
> If you're feeling frisky, either of these will probably give you way
> more information that you need, but can be good to keep in your back
> pocket:
>
> dpkg -s PACKAGENAME
>
> apt-cache showpkg PACKAGENAME
>

Neat! Really useful, thank you :)

BW,

Ian


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