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jr_west

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Registered: 2022-09-13

Posts: 11

Dependency tree of an package that's not installed

It seems like pactree only works on installed packages? Or at least I can't get it to work on a package that isn't installed.

But I want to see the dependency tree of a package that isn't installed yet. I'm trying to figure out why a package is making me install ruby... it seems like an odd dependency.

Thanks,

-Jon

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Dependency tree of an package that's not installed

pactree has an option to use the sync databases instead of the locally installed database.

jr_west

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Registered: 2022-09-13

Posts: 11

Re: Dependency tree of an package that's not installed

It doesn't seem to work for AUR packages?

WorMzy

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Re: Dependency tree of an package that's not installed

No, AUR packages aren't in the sync database. You may be able to achieve something similar with an AUR helper. For example auracle has a buildorder flag which can be used to see which packages pull in other packages:

$ auracle buildorder auracle-git 
SATISFIEDREPOS pacman
SATISFIEDREPOS libcurl.so
SATISFIEDREPOS libsystemd
REPOS meson
SATISFIEDREPOS git
SATISFIEDREPOS perl
SATISFIEDREPOS systemd
SATISFIEDREPOS python
REPOS fakechroot
REPOS gtest
TARGETAUR auracle-git auracle-git

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