How to tell which repositories provide which packages?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:17:10PM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Chris Green wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:
>    
> >> This will give you your installed version, the candidate version
> >> that's available (if any), and the sources for the various
> >> versions:
> >> 
> >> apt-cache policy PACKAGENAME
> >>   
> >This doesn't really tell me the truth:-
> 
> You're right. It apparently only works on packages that aren't
> installed by PPAs.
> 
> I looked up Syncthing and it hasn't got an official PPA, so you'll
> want to look in Synaptic or /etc/apt/sources.list

Syncthing has a repository, see:-

    https://syncthing.net/downloads/

It's possibly not a 'proper' PPA but it certainly works well and keeps
syncthing up to date on my systems.

-- 
Chris Green