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tokland

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Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

I am trying to get reverse dependencies for a package (= Debian's 'apt-cache rdepends package'). I found this wiki page:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_rosetta

but it states that the equivalent is "pacman -Qi", which is obviously wrong...

How can we get this info with Pacman?

Pyntux

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

have read man of pacman?

man pacman

you will find everything there....

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tokland

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Re: Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

have read man of pacman?

Yes, of course, but I haven't been able to find that particular information. Can you point out where reverse dependencies are referenced in the manual?

Arisna

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Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 81

Re: Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

Hmm... I can't find this in the manual either.  One possibility is telling pacman to remove the package and everything that depends on it, at which point it will list all of the stuff it is about to remove and prompt you to continue/quit.  Of course, you should say no to the prompt.

EvilSnowball

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Registered: 2009-06-20

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Re: Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

but it states that the equivalent is "pacman -Qi", which is obviously wrong...

Didn't you notice the "Required By    :" line that pacman -Qi prints out?

tokland

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Re: Pacman equivalent for 'apt-cache rdepends'

Didn't you notice the "Required By    :" line that pacman -Qi prints out?

You are right, my mistake. My alias "pacinfo" was not running "pacman -Qi" but "pacman -Si", which also shows info about the package but with no 'Required by' section present.

Sorry for the noise, the wiki was indeed correct.