about installing packages

[Scott Sweeny]

On 8/4/05, Frank Hale <frankhale1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That has bugged me when using synaptic too.  I would like to know what
> > repo each package comes from...
> 
> Ditto on that! I've added my share of repos in addition to the ones
> that are their by default and it'd be nice to see a field that lists
> what repo the packages are in.
> 
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In the properties window (or pane) under the "versions" tab Synaptic
will list the different versions available with the repository in
parentheses.  It doesn't distinguish universe, multiverse, etc but it
will tell you hoary, hoary-security, backports, etc.

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