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andy baxter wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4794F4DF.9000105@earthsong.free-online.co.uk"
type="cite"><!---->If you still want to do this, I got the following
shell script to work <br>
<pre wrap="">(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.
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Does this show *installed* packages with unmet dependencies? If
they're *not* installed, then what's the fuss about?<br>
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