On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Narendra Sisodiya > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Following command will list out the dependency of a package. > >> sudo apt-get install --dry-run eclipse | sed -n '/The following NEW/{n; > >> :a; $!N;s/\n[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]/ /;ta;P;D;}' > >> sudo apt-get install --dry-run expect | sed -n '/The following NEW/{n; > >> :a; $!N;s/\n[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]/ /;ta;P;D;}' > >> > > > > Similar method - > > > http://www.debianadmin.com/recursively-lists-package-dependencies-using-apt-rdepends.html > > apt-rdepends > > I am doing this because, I want to create a dependency chart. If we know > the > > packages which are commons in most of the package then we can create a > base > > version of Linux. On top of baseLinux we can bundle application to have > one > > click system. > > To generate charts, especially from scripts, i'd suggest you try > graphviz. I've found it to be very handy for such tasks. > > > SB > > Thanks, Initially I am dumping all the things into mysql-database, so that I can query and find base packages! Thanks again ! -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
