what-repo(1)

📦 version 1.5, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

what-repo — the lil bestie that helps you figure out what archive a source package is in 💅 This one lives in the what-utils crew, and yes, the manual page is what-repo(1).

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

what-repo SOME_SOURCE_PACKAGE

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so, what-repo(1) is a simple program that determines what archive a source package resides in. That's literally its whole job, no cap. It's a simple wrapper for apt-cache(1) show | grep. The way it just wraps that and hands you the answer? Iconic, honestly.

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

Like, say you're curious about sl — bestie, just run this:

$ what-repo sl
universe

And boom, universe. Vibe check passed 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • apt-cache(1) — go peek at that one too, iykyk 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

That's the whole page, periodt. This was brought to you by what-utils, dated 11 Jan 2011, and it's the what-repo(1) manual. Mwah 💖✨

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