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Re: Who installed package "foo"?



On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:59:16 +0700,
Victor Sudakov<vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>When I want to figure out what package has installed package "foo" as a
>dependency, is there a less barbaric method than 
>
>apt-get -s remove foo 
>
>?
>

There's 

aptitude why [package]

which should do what you ask.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
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andreas@ronnquist.net


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