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Re: Showing recommended packages from cli



On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying
> recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of
> "apt-cache show"?
 
apt-cache depends <package>

also shows the recommended packages.

> Basically, I'd just like to get a list of recommended packages from a
> list of installed or prospective packages without having to use the
> aptitude GUI.

Maybe grep-dctrl (package dctrl-tools) can help with this.

Regards,
Andrei
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