Re: finding the category of a package.
Hi,
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:01:32AM -0800, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> Folk,
> By examining the repositories, a user can learn whether a package
> is in main or contrib or non-free. Is there any other way to find
> the category of a package?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ shows that 3270-common is
> non-free but doesn't show the category of shorewall.
>
> "dpkg -l shorewall" also doesn't show the category.
>
> * From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> * Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:09:41 +0900
> > This was discussed here before.
I use normally "apt-cache show"
apt-cache show shorewall
Then you get the Filename:
Filename: pool/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_4.4.11.6-3_all.deb
==> it is in main
HTH,
Axel
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