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Find what packages are installed from a repository

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I'm trying to find what packages I have installed from a repository using terminal commands.

I found a post somewhere saying I could use aptitude search "?origin (<repository>) ?installed", but I couldn't get it working. I tried searching for a packages that came from ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa and got nothing with these:

aptitude search "?origin (http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/) ?installed"

aptitude search "?origin (http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/) ?installed"

aptitude search "?origin (http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main) ?installed"

It would be nice if I could get something that works with PPAs.

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answered 2 Years ago onbean · Accepted Answer

In brackets, you should use only the name of the repository, not the URI or something else. For example in your case:

aptitude search "?origin (ubuntu-wine) ?installed"

Run apt-cache policy to see the repositories and the names (aka origin, o) of those:

$ apt-cache policy | grep wine

 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages

     release v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-ubuntu-wine,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=Wine Team PPA,c=main,b=i386

 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

     release v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-ubuntu-wine,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=Wine Team PPA,c=main,b=amd64

Since the search string is a regex pattern matched anywhere in the string, you can use a convenient substring like ubuntu-wine, or even just wine.

See also: How can I get a list of all repositories and PPAs from the command line into an install script?