Checking Dependencies
Dan
grinnz at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 19:20:16 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:21 -0400, Dan wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know the command for checking dependencies of a program
>>> before deleting it? I didn't realize that after deleting a program
>>> (in this case, wpa_supplicant), other critical programs would be
>>> deleted as well. Fortunately, I was able to replace those
>>> dependencies but would prefer to avoid this problem in the future.
>>>
>> rpm -q --requires packagename
>>
>
> That tells you what a package depends on, not what packages depend on
> it.
>
> Paul.
>
>
True. I meant rpm -q --whatrequires packagename . Though I've had odd
experiences where this command hasn't returned everything it should have.
-Dan
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