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Re: Who installed package "foo"?



Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > ?
> 
> or apt-cache rdepends foo

I got the impression that it shows all possible reverse dependencies,
not just those installed locally.

It lists plenty of stuff which "dpkg -l" does not list.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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