how can i tell which sources.list line corr to a package?

Markus Schönhaber ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Sun Aug 22 13:51:25 UTC 2010


22.08.2010 15:05, Robert P. J. Day:

>   i'm sure there's a simple answer to this but, for my installed
> package sun-java6-jdk, what command can i use to see that it came
> via the 10.04 /etc/apt/sources.list line:
> 
>   deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner
> 
> i did "apt-cache show sun-java6-jdk" but that doesn't tell me where
> the package came from.  thanks.

Try
apt-cache policy sun-java6-jdk

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Regards
  mks




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