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[fishbone]

Apologies if this question has been asked in the FAQ before, but I saw a link somewhere in a Components section that said a list of what packages are contained in each repository was being worked on - is this true ?

I am trying to install webmin & shorewall packages on Hoary 5.4 using apt-get (No X so I'm not using the GUI ver of apt) - are there security update supported vers of these in the main repo or am I better grabbing source tarballs ??

[mendicant]

The typical way to check is to use aptitude show:

% aptitude show webmin
Package: webmin
State: not installed
Version: 1.180-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
...

% aptitude show shorewall
...
Section: net

So shorewall is in main, but webmin is in universe.

[fishbone]

Cool ! well that was easy - thank you

[mendicant]

By the way, I'm sure synaptic has something for this as well, if you're into using the GUI. I don't use it, though, so I couldn't tell you what to do there.