dependencies

[Chris Hill]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Steven Lake wrote:

> 	Hi all.  Ok, I'm having a total brain fart today.  I've got a 
> few apps that won't run and I need to find out the list of 
> dependencies and what they're missing.  But I can't remember for the 
> life of me what the command I need is to view that list.  I remember 
> using it once where it would list the dependencies and tell either 
> where they existed, or if they didn't exist, what the missing file 
> was.  Anyone remember that command?  Thanks.

I use pkg_info -Rr <pkg_name>, where <pkg_name> is the exact name of the 
package. The -Rr options will tell you what the package depends on, and 
what depends on the package. To find the exact package name, I do (for 
example) pkg_info | grep firefox, which returns:
  firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
...and the I know to do pkg_info -Rr firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1

HTH.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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