On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Raghu Prasad prasad.raghu.k@gmail.comwrote:
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