Re: dpkg

[Cristi Banciu <c.banciu@bucarest.finsiel.ro>]

On Jo, 2002-08-01 at 13:31, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Cristi Banciu wrote on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:11:30PM +0300: 
> cb> Is there any away to find out not using dselect or synaptic what
> cb> packeges depands on a given package ?
> 
> 1. Use apt-cache depends <package name>
jihad:~# apt-cache depends openssl
openssl
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libssl0.9.6
  Depends: perl

it shows me that openssl depands on libc6 and so on... This is not what
I want to see, I need to know what packages depands on openssl, what
packages require openssl, or anyother package in orther to work.