what-source(1) what-utils what-source(1)

what-source - determine what source package provides some binary package

what-source SOME_BINARY_PACKAGE

what-source(1) is a simple program that determines what source package provides some binary package

It's a simple wrapper for 'apt-cache(1) show | grep'.


$ what-source sl
universe

apt-cache(1)

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.

30 Aug 2011 what-utils
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