Re: How to tell WHY apt wants to install so many packages
--- Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any package, or command, that will go through the "depends' for
> a packages and tell me exactly why apt-get wants to install over 30MB of
> packages when all I am trying to do is remove ONE package.
Two ways:
$ apt-cache depends <package>
$ apt-rdepends <package>
I prefer the latter command.
-- Thomas Adam
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