Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:01:09 -0500 From: Steven Lake <steven.lake@corecomm.com> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependencies Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20060326150042.01b9d040@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <20060326133702.T69019@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20060326131808.00bf56a8@pop.voyager.net> <5.2.0.9.2.20060326131808.00bf56a8@pop.voyager.net>
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Hmm, definitely useful, but not quite what I'm looking for.
At 01:40 PM 3/26/2006 -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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