Re: Finding installed dependencies?
On 10/05/2007 02:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>> I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that
>> should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google
>> has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed.
>> Is there a way that I can list other installed packages which have that
>> first one, i.e. 'pkgx-1.0', listed as a dependency? I was trying to
>> clean up some junk on my computer, and just would like a nice and easy
>> way to find out what I have which is using one or another package.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Patrick
> 'debfoster' is a neat program to find cruft and remove it.
> If pkgx is install and has dependencies a, b and c, then 'debfoster'
> will show you this and ask you if you want to delete all of them. Read
> the man pages and docs before you use it as its job is to remove stuff.
> you can also just do 'apt-cache show pkgx' to see its dependencies
>
And apt-cache rdepends <pkg>. $ man apt-cache
Look at deborphan as well.
Regards,
Ralph
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