On Debian-based systems, apt-rdepends performs recursive dependency
listings similar to apt-cache:
http://www.debianadmin.com/manpages/aptrdependsmanpage.htm
apt-rdepends packagename | less
Shows package dependencies recursively, the whole way down.
Tends to be pretty verbose, so you'll want to pipe it to less
apt-rdepends -r packagename
Reverse dependencies, ie. who in the apt repository depends on
the named package
If you install both apt-rdepends and graphviz, you can get pretty
dependency graphs, which can be viewed in Firefox:
apt-rdepends -d packagename | dot -Tsvg > temp.svg
Very large trees don't display too well in Firefox. Don't try this on
ubuntu-desktop, for instance, as there are 5500 dependencies involved.
Does anyone know how to pipe a file to Firefox?
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