what-source(1)

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

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is what-source — the what-utils girlies know 💅 and she's here to tell you what source package provides some binary package. that's literally her whole job. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

what-source SOME_BINARY_PACKAGE

just one lil argument, bestie. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

what-source(1) is a simple program that determines what source package provides some binary package. like, you have a binary package, and you're sitting there going "okay but who made you 👀" — and she answers. main character energy fr fr.

she's a simple wrapper for apt-cache(1) show | grep. that's the tea ☕ — no fancy magic, no secret sauce, just a cute little pipeline doing the absolute most with the absolute least. lowkey iconic.

💖 EXAMPLE 💖

$ what-source sl
universe

look at her go 😭 slaying with zero drama. you ask, she tells you universe, done, periodt. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • apt-cache(1) — the bestie she's wrapping, go show her some love too 💜

👑 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. ngl that's a whole legal slay.

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. go read it if you're feeling academic 💅

fr fr bestie, that's the whole page. go what-source something and feel powerful ✨

what-utils · 30 Aug 2011 · mwah 💋 she's been serving since 2011 and she's still that girl. bye bestie, love u, drink water 🍓🧚💖

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