Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:45:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0700, NewDeb wrote:
> > 3) apt-get --download-only install tomcat5 (thinking that this will be the
> > raw list of files which dpkg tries to install)
>
> this will give you the packages that tomcat5 depends on but *aren't
> already installed*. Note the distinction there.
Plus the all the packages that the packages tomcat5 depends on depend
on, plus all the packages that (the packages that the packages that
tomcat5 depends on) depend on, plus ... (*) that aren't already
installed.
Daniel
(*) insert your favorite least-fixed-point operator here.
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