On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Raghu Prasad <[email protected]>wrote:
> > From your description, I haven't understood your requirement very well. > Though I suspect you might be looking at something like this: > > dpkg --get-selections | sed -es'![ \t]\+.\+$!!' | tee > /var/tmp/installed-software | xargs apt-cache depends > >/var/tmp/software-dpendencies > > It lists down all the dependencies/suggestions/conflicts of packages > installed > on your system. If you just want to find out dependencies of few select > packages > you want to remove, then put their names (one per line) in a file, (say > packages-to-remove) and run the following: > > cat packages-to-remove | xargs apt-cache depends >/var/tmp/pkg-dpendencies > > Raghu > -- > > Thank you for the info. I was thinking of removing certain packages in one go that were tried out but were not found suitable in a new installation--so description of all packages installed earlier was needed. Thank you for your response. I guess I will have to go thru the apt documentation fairly rigorously in order to get the description of each package in one go. Kussh -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
