On 21/06/10 14:20, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying >> recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of >> "apt-cache show"? > > apt-cache depends <package> > > also shows the recommended packages. > >> Basically, I'd just like to get a list of recommended packages from a >> list of installed or prospective packages without having to use the >> aptitude GUI. > > Maybe grep-dctrl (package dctrl-tools) can help with this.
aptitude search '?reverse-recommends(^package$)' The ^ and $ are needed because we want an exact match on the package, and aptitude expects a regular expression. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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