apt-cache unmet { unmet dependencies }

[Wulfy]

andy baxter wrote:
> If you still want to do this, I got the following shell script to work
> (I wanted to practice my scripting...):
> apt-cache unmet | (p="" ;while read n l ; do if [ "$n" == "Package" ] ; 
> then p="$n $l" ; else if [ "$n" != "Suggests:" ] && [ "$n" != 
> "Recommends:" ] ; then echo $p; echo $n $l ; fi ;fi;done) |less
>
> It filters out the 'suggests' and 'recommends' dependencies. But as 
> gerard pointed out, it might not tell you what you thought it did.
>
>   

Does this show *installed* packages with unmet dependencies?  If they're 
*not* installed, then what's the fuss about?

-- 
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