Re: dpkg

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:01:44PM +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> 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>

That shows forward dependencies. For reverse dependencies, try
'apt-cache showpkg <package name>'. It doesn't distinguish Depends: from
Recommends:, Suggests:, and Conflicts: (!) though, so you'll have to
continue by hand.

It's easier to install grep-dctrl and, after running 'dselect update',
use:

  grep-available -FDepends '<package name>'

There are lots of switches to control the searching and the output.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]