How do I check my package dependencies?

Posted on by Muna Meyer

How do I check my package dependencies?

Let’s see various ways to see the dependencies of a package.

  1. Checking dependencies with apt show.
  2. Use apt-cache for getting just the dependencies information.
  3. Check the dependencies of a DEB file using dpkg.
  4. Checking dependencies and reverse dependencies with apt-rdepends.

How do I get dependencies in Ubuntu?

Options

  1. Enable all repositories.
  2. Update the software.
  3. Upgrade the software.
  4. Clean the package dependencies.
  5. Clean cached packages.
  6. Remove “on-hold” or “held” packages.
  7. Use the -f flag with the install subcommand.
  8. Use the build-dep command.

How do I see what packages are installed on Ubuntu?

How do I see what packages are installed on Ubuntu Linux?

  1. Open the terminal application or log in to the remote server using ssh (e.g. ssh user@sever-name )
  2. Run command apt list –installed to list all installed packages on Ubuntu.

How do I check my pip dependencies?

The dependencies of the installed Python packages can be listed using the built-in pip show command. Alternatively the dependencies can be shown as a tree structure using the pipdeptree command. In this note i will show several examples of how to list dependencies of the installed Python packages.

How do I know if Linux dependency is installed?

Checking if a specific package is installed using dpkg: To check if a specific package is installed on Debian based Linux distributions, you can use the dpkg command followed by the -s (status) flag and the package name. The command below shows an example of dpkg, used to check the status of the package Steam.

How do I install dependencies on a package?

Running sudo apt-get install will install the package, its dependencies, and any other recommended packages.

How install apt-get dependencies?

If you want to install package along with its dependencies, it is recommended that you use dpkg tool with -f option. In that case, you can simply use -f option to automatically install dependencies of a package.

How do I list installed packages in Linux?

The procedure is as follows to list installed packages:

  1. Open the terminal app.
  2. For remote server log in using the ssh command: ssh user@centos-linux-server-IP-here.
  3. Show information about all installed packages on CentOS, run: sudo yum list installed.
  4. To count all installed packages run: sudo yum list installed | wc -l.