Creating a visual dependency tree

dtw · 2005-10-02 11:53:20

I have tried pacmenu and jacman. Pacmenu is taking aeons to initially get going and I can't see how to do it in jacman - is there a better way?

I need this before I rebuild all the [gis] pkgs you see - I have to start at the bottom and work up

arooaroo · 2005-10-02 12:05:12

Jacman just shows you a dependency tree of the currently selected package (in the install dialog). There's no way of exporting that info though.

What exactly are you trying to do? A full dependency tree of all your packages?

There was another bash script in the user contributions a few months back that also created dep trees to the console.

dtw · 2005-10-02 12:19:46

Yeah, my install scrren showed no pkgs at all...so there was nothing to click on :s

I found the other script - pacmenu was crap - took 20 mins to get started and then would only show deps for [current]/[extra]

arooaroo · 2005-10-02 12:42:25

dibblethewrecker wrote:

Yeah, my install scrren showed no pkgs at all...so there was nothing to click on :s

Oh dear

Have you had it working ok before? Are there any packages displayed on the Remove or Update dialogs?

I can't think why there's nothing showing up if pacman is working ok. Perhaps it's a funky pacman.conf that Jacman can't parse correctly.

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