On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 10:21:13 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The output from "dpkg -l" is showing some packages that are not > present in the repositories I track.
You are referring to the repositories you track now. What about those repositories you no longer track. (Does deb-multimedia ring any bells?) > How to change this behaviour so > it only shows packages that are available in repositories? Impossible. 'dpkg -l' only shows packages which have files on the system. Perhaps you would like to reframe your query?

