Help needed : dpkg --info

[Ramanathan Rm <send4ram@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

My requirement is to know what are all the dependency
packages that have to be installed before installing a
package.

So I issued the foll. command in a Debian GNU Linux
3.0 machine, 

dpkg --info apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody6_i386.deb,

and got the below response.


 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 535772 bytes: control archive= 2150 bytes.
     557 bytes,    14 lines      control
    3334 bytes,    49 lines      md5sums
     269 bytes,     9 lines   *  postinst            
#!/bin/sh
     202 bytes,     7 lines   *  prerm               
#!/bin/sh
 Package: apache-dev
 Version: 1.3.26-0woody6
 Section: web
 Priority: extra
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb2 (>= 2:2.7.7.0-7),
libexpat1 (>= 1.95.2-6), apache-common (>= 1.3.26-0),
apache-common (<< 1.3.27-0), libdb2-dev (>=
2.7.7-2.1), libexpat1-dev
 Suggests: apache
 Conflicts: apache (<= 1.3b2)
 Installed-Size: 1440
 Maintainer: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
 Source: apache
 Description: Apache webserver development kit
  Provides the Apache C headers and the Apache
Extension Tool (apxs),
  needed to compile external Apache modules.

Here I assume the dependencies are listed against the
Depends label.

 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb2 (>= 2:2.7.7.0-7),
libexpat1 (>= 1.95.2-6), apache-common (>= 1.3.26-0),
apache-common (<< 1.3.27-0), libdb2-dev (>=
2.7.7-2.1), libexpat1-dev

My questions:

1)How to find out the exact dependency packages that
are reqd. from the above? (Because some seems to be
files)

2)What do the symbols >> and << mean?

So that If I do a dpkg --install pkg1 pkg2 ...
will solve any dependency issues.

Thanks in advance,
Ram.


		
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