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Re: aptitude: all dependent packages



On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:00:32AM -0400, rs wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way, preferably using command line interface, to find all packages that this package depends on AND all packages that depend on this package.
> 
> Example:
> 
> PackageA
> |
> |--PackageB   <== show all dependent packages
>    |
>    |--PackageB-1
>    |
>    |--PackageB-2
> 
> 
> So, PackageB depends on PackageB-1 and PackageB-2 AND PackageA depends on PackageB.
> 
> # aptitude show PackageB
> I believe aptitude CLI will not show that PackageA depends on PackageB.
> 

I know you can do this with apt-cache depends <Pkg> and rdepends <pkg>

see man apt-cache

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