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-----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). I am sure you can do this using the gui, however I find the command line far quicker for this sort of thing anyway. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Meetings 1st Saturday of the month - Shoreline, Paignton from 3pm Software freedom day 2009 - Saturday 19th September 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqyji4ACgkQaggq1k2FJq0zzACdH9vRb6vVW8qhCYkLkK/SRVvW k0AAnRnuDbHuvIVRgW5+CgIUIRDqPHKw =1u6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html