command linerepositorysupport
While doing some support audits I'd like to know what would be the most efficient/compact way to get a list of all extra reporitories being used on a given Ubuntu workstation using command line (not via the GUI tools). So far I am using:
Any other ideas on how to best go about this ?
You can show everything with:
grep ^ /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
The command line way of obtaining such a list would be apt-cache:
apt-cache dump # short list
apt-cache dumpavail # long list
This will take some time due to the many packages available.
You can grep Package: by following command:
apt-cache dumpavail | grep "Package:"
My personal approach to view packages I can't remember still is installing and running Synaptic which has a searchable GUI and can also be used to install and purge a given package.
Best Answer
To examine the files under
/etc/apt/sources.list.d, you could use:cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep -v "^#"This reads out the contents of all the files there and then cuts out all commented out lines. This way you only get the repositories that are actually in use.