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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

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[SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

do you know of a package that draws dependency graphs of installed packages, i.e. "draw me a graph of the package vlc and its dependencies"?
On Debian, there is a tool called debtree, on arch I found pacgraph, but pacgraph draws the entire system, I want to specify specific packages...

Thanks!

Last edited by awayand (2011-05-30 08:48:08)

Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

aur/pactree?

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Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

pacman -Ql pacman | grep pactree
pacman /usr/bin/pactree

pactree comes with the default install.

edit: pacgraph can draw dependencies for a single packet too...

pacgraph -m arch-repo vlc

Last edited by Wey (2011-05-17 18:54:23)

bernarcher

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

pacman -Ql pacman | grep pactree
pacman /usr/bin/pactree

Only as an aside - there is no grep needed:

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/pactree
/usr/bin/pactree is owned by pacman 3.5.2-1

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Wey

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

That asumes you already know where the binary is located. On the other side, my approach implies you know the right package name. The following would resolve these problems:

pacman -Qo $( which pactree )

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

That asumes you already know where the binary is located. On the other side, my approach implies you know the right package name. The following would resolve these problems:

pacman -Qo $( which pactree )

Actually, you need neither to know the path nor use 'which':

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Qo pactree
/usr/bin/pactree is owned by pacman 3.5.2-1

http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … ?id=v3.4.0
- allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)

Last edited by karol (2011-05-17 19:30:10)

Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

pacman -Ql pacman | grep pactree
pacman /usr/bin/pactree

pactree comes with the default install.

Oops... sorry, used it only once...

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twl

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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Re: [SOLVED] looking for package like debtree on debian

how do you build a dependency tree with a package you don't have installed? (like one in AUR or the Repositories)