On 10/05/2007 02:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote: >> I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that >> should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google >> has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed. >> Is there a way that I can list other installed packages which have that >> first one, i.e. 'pkgx-1.0', listed as a dependency? I was trying to >> clean up some junk on my computer, and just would like a nice and easy >> way to find out what I have which is using one or another package. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Patrick > 'debfoster' is a neat program to find cruft and remove it. > If pkgx is install and has dependencies a, b and c, then 'debfoster' > will show you this and ask you if you want to delete all of them. Read > the man pages and docs before you use it as its job is to remove stuff. > you can also just do 'apt-cache show pkgx' to see its dependencies >
And apt-cache rdepends <pkg>. $ man apt-cache Look at deborphan as well. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
