For this sort of thing I prefer the aptitude TUI. Highlight the package in question and hit 'r' and the list of reverse dependencies appears. Installed packages will be in bold (also bright white with my terminal settings). One can continue up the chain by highlighting one of the installed reverse dependencies and pressing 'r' again, and so on. Another trick I have used is to use 'M' to mark the package as automatically installed, if nothing depends on it then it will be marked for removal. Be careful here as a manually installed top level package you might want to keep such as vim will be marked for removal and all packages that were automatically installed with it. To reverse the proposed removal action, use 'Ctrl-u'. While I often use apt at the command line, I've been using aptitude since early 2001 and often prefer its TUI for doing drastic things! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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