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. >
Run aptitude. Read the aptitude manual, but just to answer the question of "what depends on this package", run aptitude, find the package, and scroll down to the list of packages that depend on it. Done. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
