Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:05:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
> One option you have is to run "aptitude why -v imagemagick iceape-browser",
> which will show you all the possible dependency chains between those
> packages.
On my computer, I get this (reformatted, "why" apparently doesn't deal
well with very long ORs):
i A imagemagick Depends libmagick10
i A libmagick10 Depends libdjvulibre21 (>= 3.5.20)
i A libdjvulibre21 Recommends djvulibre-desktop
p djvulibre-desktop Recommends djview4 | djview3 | djview | evince
p djview4 Recommends djvulibre-plugin
p djvulibre-plugin Recommends mozilla-browser | mozilla | mozilla-firefox |
iceweasel | iceape-browser | konqueror |
galeon | netscape-base-4 | netscape
It looks like djvulibre-plugin is a plugin for Netscape-style
browsers, so it recommends installing one. Since links isn't,
mozilla-browser gets picked, which is really iceape-browser.
Daniel
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