This is not an ubuntu specific group, yet there are ubuntu specific questions all the time. Here is a distro agnostic answer:
Here follows a list of distros and their dependency search capabilties. I'm just going to list the commands/applications used, refer to the manual for the specifc options that provide the desired feature because I really am not interested in most of these operation systems. I just happen to know where I would start looking IF I used them. Debian: - dpkg and apt-*. Probably apt-cache is the apt command you would end up using. Ubuntu: -inherited from debian, dpkg and/or apt-* Arch: - pacman Gentoo: - emerge Fedora: - yum - dnf (replaces yum in recent versions) Red Hat: - rpm (open)SUSE: - rpm - YaST - Zypper - apparently SUSE has a variety of options, I'm not exactly sure which they prefer for tracking down dependencies, but the rpm command should do the job. Slackware: - Responsibility of the user - by default nothing in slackware has the capability to record dependencies. - You would keep track of this manually, or install an extra tool. - rpm is installed by default, however since no packages were installed via rpm it has no knowledge of what is installed This list should serve as a decent starting place for tracking down a given dependency on any distro. -Ben On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Ali Corbin wrote: > > It depends on your package manager. >> > > Thanks, Ali. Slackware has 'installpkg' and 'upgradepkg' so I'll ask on a > Slackware-specific venue. > > Regards, > > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
