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Re: FINDING PROGRAM DEPENDECIES



On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:09:35PM -0700, D. wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I'm sure that this has been asked before so I ask
> with caution for the flames... 
>   What is th ecommand that I can use to determine the
> dependecies of a program are?  I thought that it was
> dpkg -p <program name> but that doesn't work.

It's the package that has dependencies, not the program.
So

dpkg -p <package-name> | grep ^Depends

should do it.

> Thanks in advance
> Don
> 
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