David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Nov 2020 at 09:52:53 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Dan Ritter 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 > > > > > > In addition to the other answers I see, you probably have a > > > record of when it happened in /var/log/history.log > > > > You probably mean /var/log/apt/history.log.* > > > > Unfortunately the information about "foo" seems to have already been rotated away. > > $ grep -e '^Package:' -e 'Depends: .*\<foo\>' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -B1 -e 'Depends:' | less Oh, parsing a text file is to my liking, thank you for the hint. It's good that Debian's package database is a plain text file (as compared to FreeBSD's sqlite for example). -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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