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Re: How do I find out where a package came from?



>>>>> "David" == David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> writes:

David> If I downloaded a package from one of the sources in my
David> sources.list and did not notice it at the time, how can I find
David> out which source actually produced this deb?

Try "apt-cache policy <package>".  This will show you all the possible
versions of the package, and where they can be downloaded from.  For
each version, it may list a few sites.  AFACT, it goes by order of
preference.

If the installed version of the package is no longer available for
download, I don't think there's any way to tell where it came from,
though.

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