From the search results I was able to get so far my question seems unlikely, although I don't know why 😉
I'm writing an installation guide for a program and need a “compatibility matrix” for several packages on the different distributions. So what I need is the information in which distributions and releases a given package X is available, optionally together with the version.
Of course each distribution has a package index like Debian Packages Search from where I can get the information for this distribution. But is there an index or a search engine anywhere that can give me this information for many (all?) distributions?
Best Answer
Repology is an online service which seems to fit the bill. Its information is accurate for the packages I checked, but other commentators differ.
You might also find
whohasuseful. This is a tool which runs locally and interrogates a number of package indexes directly.Both tools track most of the major distributions; Repology indexes lots of smaller ones too.
Can I depend? provides a list of supported versions for a small set of language runtimes on a few distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES). Its scope is much smaller than Repology’s but it could be sufficient for some readers.