[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Huw Lynes]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:08:26 +0000
Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> I don't know about a tutorial, but these are most of the commands
> you'll ever need, for apt and dpkg usage:
> 

>   dpkg -S <filename>
>     - find out which package claims to own the named file
> 
Now that one I just could not find. Thanks.

But how do you work out what a packages dependencies are? In rpm you can do:

rpm -qp --requires somelib-1.1-1.i386.rpm

libfoo.so
libblah.so.1
spam >= 1.33


And you can do the reverse:

rpm -q --whatrequires libfoo.so

somelib-1.1-1

I can't work out how to do that in dpkg.

Thanks,
Huw



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