Re: apt package dependencies
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0100, willem wrote:
> I went thru the man pages but couldn't find what i was looking for. I
> run testing and unstable, with testing pinned as prime. Now i want to
> get something from unstable, licq, so checked the dependencies and
> it's quite a list. But the dependencies do not show to which release
> they belong... either testing or unstable. Is there a way tosee the
> release these dependencies belong to at the same time when checking
> out details about a package without having to go check each dependant
> package seperatly?
Not sure if this will give you everything you're looking for, but you
could try:
apt-get -s install licq/unstable
That should preform a simulation of the install, requesting the unstable
version of the licq package. It should then show where each dependancy
is being pulled from.
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Jamin W. Collins
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