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sawsedge
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 Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 3:21 am Post subject: how to find dependencies? |
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This may exist somewhere and I just don't know how to find it...
How does one find a list of dependant packages in Gentoo?
For example, I wanted to upgrade libpng the other day, but I wasn't sure how to find out what to unmerge and re-emerge to use the new lib...
If this is not easy, it might be a handy tool to create. |
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steveb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 3:25 am Post subject: |
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check the gentoolkit package. it has a feature, wich shows you the dependencies.
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JL
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use the -pretend option.
emerge -p somepackage
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axxackall
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:06 am Post subject: |
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"emerge -p <package> shows the list of packages you need for this package.
After "emerge app-admin/gentoolkit" you'll be able to type "qpkg -q <package>" and see the list of packages which depends on this package. |
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sawsedge
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| gentoolkit... cool. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tips! |
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