Re: dpkg

[Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:41:33PM +0300, Cristi Banciu wrote:
> 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.

	Try apt-rdepends, which does recursive dependencies.  You can
find it on my website at http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/programs/

You can then run:
	$ apt-rdepends -r openssl

Simon