How Does Linux Determine Rpm Dependency?
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How does rpm determine dependency?

It is a powerful command line package management system for installing uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Linux computer software packages. However RPM has in build mechanism to tell you about dependencies. Just try to install package and it will give you list of dependencies.

How does Linux determine dependency?

Let’s see various ways to see the dependencies of a package.

  1. Checking dependencies with apt show. …
  2. Use apt-cache for getting just the dependencies information. …
  3. Check the dependencies of a DEB file using dpkg. …
  4. Checking dependencies and reverse dependencies with apt-rdepends.
Sophia Al-Mansoor

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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