Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:01:32AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Folk, > By examining the repositories, a user can learn whether a package > is in main or contrib or non-free. Is there any other way to find > the category of a package? > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ shows that 3270-common is > non-free but doesn't show the category of shorewall. > > "dpkg -l shorewall" also doesn't show the category. > > * From: Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> > * Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:09:41 +0900 > > This was discussed here before. I use normally "apt-cache show" apt-cache show shorewall Then you get the Filename: Filename: pool/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_4.4.11.6-3_all.deb ==> it is in main
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