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command to know which repository a package come from

Asked by Hanusz leszek

Is there a command to know from which repository a package installed on your system come from ?

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Best Roshan Shariff (roshan.shariff) said : 		#1

Try apt-cache madison <pkg>. It produces output like this:

$ apt-cache madison gedit
gedit | 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
gedit | 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources

This shows that gedit (and its source code) is available in main.

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#2

Thanks Roshan Shariff, that solved my question.