How do you know what app is available from where, and by what name?

[David]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:16:10PM -0300, Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:42 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
> > 12132005 0837 GMT-5
> 
> Wade,
> 
> I usually use command line instead of synaptic but it works either way.
> 
> To make sure ATP (synaptic, too) is getting the info you need, you first
> need to edit /etc/apt/source.list  file. I comment the line regarding to
> CDrom and uncomment the universe lines and create a set of multiverse
> lines (just copy paste the universe lines and replace the word for
> multiverse)

A small point, but it's not such a good idea to comment the cdrom line. 
Lots of packages don't need upgrading, so if they are the latest version 
on the CDrom, it saves download resources, and is faster.

apt is quite capable of sorting out where the latest version of any 
package lives... whether it be on the CD or on a repository somewhere.