Lucid - search for installed PPAs

[trumpeteersman]

I had some major bugs with KDE 4.3 and 4.4 and the only way that I could fix them was to install the entire KDE 4.5. This was mid-Summer. Now I would like to upgrade to Maverick the proper way and have 4.5 in a stock repo.

I managed to get most of kde back to stock by luck and uninstall/reinstalling kdebase stuff and kubuntu-desktop a couple of times. A pain in the neck trying to find important packages that are already installed from a previous PPA.
BTW my sources.list is stock right now.

Does anyone know of a way to search for installed PPA packages that are not in the stock repository?

[karthick87]

Look in the origin section of the synaptic,

http://imgur.com/l1QRR.png

[trumpeteersman]

karthick87's advice only works for individual packages. I wanted to search ALL packages.

I wrote a small inefficient bash script to work for me. It gets all installed packages and outputs the name followed by the version:



#!/bin/bash

SEARCHKEY=\~ppa
MYPAK=`dpkg --get-selections | awk '{ print $1 }'`

for i in $MYPAK
do
dpkg -l $i | grep -i $SEARCHKEY | head -6 | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 " " $3}'

done