How do you find the dependencies an app requires

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 31 18:27:04 UTC 2007


Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> How do you discover all an applications dependencies?
> 
# apt-cache depends PACKAGE

tells you the specific packages it depends on - but not the ones _they_
depend on.  If you want to know every last package that will be pulled in,
use:

# aptitude -s install PACKAGE
(-s for simulate).
-- 
derek





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