On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Kussh Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
try $ apt-cache show $(dpkg --get-selections |cut -f1) > package-desc.lst The file will have all the packages install on your system along with their description After your remove packages also try # apt-get autoremove to remove all packages not required on the system due to the dependencies removed from the system. > Kussh HTH With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System Pvt. Ltd. +91-98213-11906 +91-9833-TICKET http://www.shahmicro.com http://iopt.in http://crm.iopt.in Blog: http://dineshah.wordpress.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
