---
name: "apt-show-source"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "apt-show-source"
version: "0.10"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/apt-show-source"
---

# apt-show-source(1)

apt-show-source - Lists source-packages. This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed. It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list point to stable and the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With this program you are easily able to find out if there is a newer version of eg. Program XXXX in unstable. Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the path to APT's list files and a package name. There are also options to display: all source-packages, verbose messages, version-only and command-line help.\
 **-stf** *FILE***, --status-file=***FILE* Reads installed packages from *FILE* instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.\
 **-ld** *DIRECTORY***, --list-dir=***DIRECTORY* *DIRECTORY* specifies the path to APT's list files, defaults to /var/lib/apt/lists/.\
 **-p** *PACKAGE***, --package=***PACKAGE* Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for *PACKAGE*.\
 **--version-only** Prints version only if used together with **--package**.\
 **-a, --all** Prints out all available source-packages with version.\
 **-v, --verbose** Prints out verbose messages.\
 **-h, --help** Prints out command-line help. Dennis Schoen, dennis@debian.org *apt*(1), [*dpkg*(1)](/dpkg/1.md)