So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first find out what all packages does this deb file depends on and then install those packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install this deb file (using dpkg -i opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb).
Now on giving the command: dpkg --info opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb | grep Depends[ I get the following output: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6) | xlibs | libxmu6, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libqt3-mt (>= 3.3.4), libstdc++6 Now my question is what is the best way I can extract/list just the names of the above packages (using awk, sed?) so that I feed the list to apt-get to first install them and then run dpkg -i opera* I know an apt-get -f install after the first attempt to install it would take care of this but I am trying to automate this installation process through a script also keeping in mind that the dependencies of opera package might change in the future. Alternatively, if anyone can suggest a better method on how to achieve that would be great. Thanks, Tech Geek
