[SOLVED] pacman show dependency list

Question

How can I make pacman show all dependencies of some package?
Last edited by silenc3r (2010-05-21 20:00:12)

Answer 1

Here is a little command I wrote a while back while I was learning sed. It gives a bulk output of all your programs, their dependencies and optional dependencies. I ran into the "fails for when depends extend to multiple lines" issue and this should fix that. I haven't tested it very much so you be the judge.
pacman -Qi | sed '/^Depends On/,/^Required By/{ s/^Required By.*$//; H; d }; /^Name/!d; /^Name/{ n;x;}'| sed '/^$/s//==================================================================================/'
Small Example Output: (looks much cleaner in the Terminal)
==================================================================================
Name           : xorg-server-utils
Version        : 1.7.6-3
Depends On     : hal>=0.5.14  libgl  libxfont>=1.4.1  openssl>=1.0.0 
                 libpciaccess>=0.10.9  libxv>=1.0.5  pixman>=0.16.6 
                 xcursor-themes>=1.0.2  xkeyboard-config>=1.8 
                 xorg-server-utils  xorg-fonts-misc  xbitmaps  diffutils 
                 xf86-input-evdev>=2.2.5  inputproto>=2.0 
Optional Deps  : None
==================================================================================
Name           : xorg-util-macros
Version        : 7.5-3
Depends On     : libxfontcache>=1.0.5  libxi>=1.3  libxaw>=1.0.6 
                 libxxf86misc>=1.0.2  libxrandr>=1.3.0  libxxf86vm>=1.1.0 
                 mcpp>=2.7.2 
Optional Deps  : None
==================================================================================
Name           : xorg-utils
Version        : 1.7.0-1
Depends On     : None
Optional Deps  : None
==================================================================================
I added the equal signs for looks and to fit my default Terminal window. Just add or subtract them in the command to fit yours or to get rid of them just drop off the last section of the pipe.
Good Luck!:D