How to tell which repositories provide which packages?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>>Then I can follow that by inserting the repository name I got from
>>that command into this command to get all the packages installed by
>>that PPA:
>>
>>awk '$1 == "Package:" { print
>>$2 }' /var/lib/apt/lists/repo.REPOSITORYNAME*Packages  
>
>You are mistaken, it does show all packages provided by the PPA, but
>they aren't necessarily installed. It "seems" to work for a PPA that
>just does provide one or a few packages, but not for PPAs with tons
>of packages that aren't installed.

You're absolutely right. I've only got two small PPAs on this system
and didn't notice it. Thanks for catching that and also for all the
additional research you did.

I took a look at all the commands you sent and, after messing around
with those and some of mine, I put together this collection of
commands for getting information about PPAs. You'll see your commands
in there and I marked the one you provided that's most likely to give
the OP what he's after with an arrow:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/2X2NWZkv4m/

-- 
Little Girl

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