On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:57:47PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: > > Is there a command that shows package dependencies? > > apt-cache is a good command to find out dependencies, as well as > other info about a package. Start with apt-cache show kde Actually, if you're only interested in dependencies, you can use apt-cache depends instead: ~$ apt-cache depends perl perl Depends: perl-base Depends: perl-modules Depends: libc6 Depends: libdb2 Depends: libgdbmg1 Suggests: perl-doc Suggests: libterm-readline-perl-perl Conflicts: perl-5.004 Conflicts: perl-5.005 Conflicts: perl-5.6 Replaces: perl-5.005 Replaces: perl-5.6 Replaces: perl-doc (kde has a _much_ longer list of dependencies...) -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)