Re: aptitude uncomprehension

[Cedric BRINER <work@infomaniak.ch>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:49:00AM -0800, Willie Wonka wrote:
> > Moreover, I'm searching for a tool to navigate easily the packages 
> > depedencies back and forward. eg. 
> > - which packages are needed to install a package.
> > - which package served to other one.
> > (I know that I have difficulties to express myself).
> > to see the depedencies and to go up and down in it.
> > 
> 
> if you use KDE - you could check out 'KPackage'
> here's a screenie on deb 3.1r1 (kernel 2.6.8-2-i386);
> http://photobucket.com/albums/a217/iforone/?action=view&current=kernel-image.png

no this application gives the packages depending of. and not the way around
it gives the same info as the one in apt-cache show but, but graphically

eg.:
apt-cache show apt-proxy
...
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.00), python (<< 2.5), python (>= 2.4), python-twisted (>= 1.3.0-7) | python2.3 (<< 2.3.5-1), python-twisted (>= 1.0.0), python-apt (>= 0.5.8), python-bsddb3, bzip2, logrotate, adduser, netbase
...

this information are the one gived by your application.

What I'm looking for is:
<a_command> <a option> python
which will tell me that python is required for apt-proxy,..

or even better telling me that python is required for this and that packages which are installed on my debian

Regards

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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland