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Tomek
October 18th, 2005, 05:25 AM
Hi,

how can I find out, which installed packages i.e. are from Universe?

Because it's a server, I cannot use synaptic for this. Thanks.

riggsd
October 18th, 2005, 01:40 PM
You can find out for a single package with:

apt-cache policy foobar

komputes
March 3rd, 2008, 07:52 PM
apt-cache madison foobar