about installing packages

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> J.Markoll wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton a écrit :
>> | - why do people seem to love synaptic?
> 
>> I use alternately Synaptic and apt-get install, show, apt-cache,
>> apt-search...
>> People love Synaptic because it is very well done, offers plenty ways to
>> get information about packages, is very configurable, even with colours
>> very pratictal to see what package comes from what repository and so on,
> 
> Ah-hah.  That wasn't available the last time I used it seriously (quite
> some time ago).  

Well, I installed synaptic and all its baggage (I'm a kubuntu user, I really
didn't want all that useless gnome stuff :-)), but I'll be darned if I can
figure out any way to get it to tell me what came from what repository. 
For most packages it shows me a little ubuntu icon in the second column,
and it doesn't show that for the ones I _know_ didn't come from ubuntu, but
it also doesn't seem to show it for any packages with multiple candidates.
-- 
derek