Re: listing intstalled packages and their origin

[Jason McCarty <bclg@iup.edu>]

Willem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are several ways to get a list of the packages which are installed 
> but i haven't been able to figure out if it i possible to list the dist they're from 
> stable, testing or unstable.
> Is there a command for this or could i pipe dpgk -l through something else
> to get this done?

You can use apt-show-versions to do this. For example:

vector:~$ apt-show-versions|grep mutt
mutt/stable uptodate 1.3.28-2

The '/stable' part obviously indicating that mutt is from the stable dist.

HTH,

	Jason