Re: Show why package is being installed or show which installed package depends on it.

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>]

In <[🔎] AANLkTimBJj49HB30mWx7OM823ayp8+TGsKVR1=EMrq45@mail.gmail.com>, James 
Robertson wrote:
>I would like to know why a certain package is going to be installed or at
>least find out which package installed on my system is depending on it.

aptitude why $package-name
OR
aptitude why $search-term-for-root-pkgs $package-name

aptitude why $package-name == aptitude why '~i' $package-name
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