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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: To find out the installed packages repo section.
From:       Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-31 8:58:39
Message-ID: 20100531085839.GA12277 () think ! homelan
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On Sb, 29 mai 10, 23:21:57, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which
> section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib,
> non-free) one or more packages come from?
> 
> For example, I want to know if I have the packages installed from, say
> Testing / contrib - how I can do this?

Per package you can use 'apt-cache policy <package>'. If you want to 
find all installed packages from contrib or non-free look at aptitude's 
patterns in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README

Regards,
Andrei
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