On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other > packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I > just want to upgrade privoxy and its dependencies. 1) Install apt-rdepends. 2) Do apt-rdepends privoxy to recursively list privoxy's dependencies, and its dependencies' dependencies, and so forth. 3) Use this shell command to munge that list into a list of unique package names: apt-rdepends privoxy |grep Depends |sed 's/^\s\+Depends: //' |sed 's/([^)]\+)$//' |sort |uniq I presume that apt-rdepends also outputs some optional dependencies, or multiple packages that satisfy the same dependency (like www-browser). You'll need to do a bit more work to take the list from item 3) and compare it to the list of the packages you've already got installed. If Privoxy is already installed, all its dependencies will also be installed as well, so you can go ahead and only upgrade the packages that you've got installed. This is all doable inside a short Perl script, but the margin is too small to contain it. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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