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Re: Debian packages depending in libslang2



On 2012-07-18, ew <ew@carry-her.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 17, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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>> Is there a way to find all the Debian packages that depend upon libslang2?
>> Like I know that mc and slnr do, but how does one find them all?
>> 
>> Hugo
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> I'm not sure of the most elegant way.
>
> In the command line I'll use -s for simulate the install to see what will be installed.
> I'll also use the 'without-recommends' to get the depends list.  ie:
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> aptitude install  libslang2 --without-recommends -s
>

I think this just gets me libslang2 but not a list of packages that depend upon that


> else I'll head over to http://packages.debian.org/squeeze
> and append the url with package I'm interested in.  ie:
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> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libslang2

And this also just lists package libslang2 and its depends

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>
> I'll be interested in the more experienced users responses.
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