Re: generate a dependencies list

["Matthew P. McGuire" <gray@shadowglade.net>]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 08:28:01PM -0300, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I was wondering... how to generate a list of dependencies of a given package? 
> 
> dpkg --status <package> | grep "^Depends" get only the installed ones
> 
> apt-cache depends <package> | Grep "Depends" gives the names of the virtual 
> packages, whose dependencies I cannot determine.
> 
> I am kind of stuck... can somebody help me? The solution should be easy enough 
> to be used in a script.
> 

Try 'apt-cache depends PkgName' and you should get a list of the 
dependancies. I am not entirely sure how you can manipulate the results.

Luck,
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