Re: Finding installed dependencies?

[cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>]

Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> '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
>

Okay, I have heard of that in passing.  I will definitely look into it,
and the apt-cache command sounds like it may be just what I am looking
for. 

Many thanks,

Patrick