On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:48:58PM +0200, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote: > Hi, > > Aptitude's highlighting of installed/not installed packages is great! > > I've downloaded a .deb, not from /etc/apt/sources.list. > I wish to check without running dpkg --install foo.deb whether all > dependencies for this .deb are satisfied, or whether I need to install > more packages. > > apt-get --dry-run --simulate --no-act does not seem to fit because it > checks a package from a known repository, not my local .deb file. > > It looks like I'm missing something like rpm's --nobuild. > > dpkg --info foo.deb is of little help: I would need to check by hand each > element in the Depends: line, e.g. is libatk1.0.0 (>= 1.12.1) satisfied? > > I discovered dpkg --dry-run -i foo.deb, but that did not report unsatisfied dependencies (although I now know there are some, after trying dpkg -i foo.deb out of despair). > > What did I miss? > If you use `dpkg --control pkg_file`, then it will show you all of the control information for the package, including dependencies. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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