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

[James Robertson <j@mesrobertson.com>]

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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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                   ,= ,-_-. =.

Thanks, is there an equivalent of this using apt.  I can of course use aptitude but I am curious about apt since I use that.