How to see the dependencies of a package with apt?
How to see the dependencies of a package with apt?
Run apt with the 'show' subcommand followed by the package to see basic details about a package, including its dependencies. For a package that is not installed yet, use the 'install' subcommand to see related packages.
apt show PACKAGERun apt command with the show subcommand to see basic information about the package. This includes version information, but also any dependencies, recommendations, or even conflicting packages.
# apt show systemd
Package: systemd
Version: 252.30-1~deb12u2
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers <pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 9895 kB
Provides: systemd-sysusers (= 252.30-1~deb12u2), systemd-tmpfiles (= 252.30-1~deb12u2)
Pre-Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.24), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.0), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r122), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libmount1 (>= 2.30), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2)
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.24.2), libcryptsetup12 (>= 2:2.4), libfdisk1 (>= 2.33), libkmod2 (>= 15), libp11-kit0 (>= 0.23.18.1), libseccomp2 (>= 2.3.1), libsystemd-shared (= 252.30-1~deb12u2), libsystemd0 (= 252.30-1~deb12u2), mount
Recommends: default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus, systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon
Suggests: systemd-container, systemd-homed, systemd-userdbd, systemd-boot, systemd-resolved, libfido2-1, libqrencode4, libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0, libtss2-mu0, libtss2-rc0, polkitd | policykit-1
Conflicts: consolekit, libpam-ck-connector, systemd-shim
Breaks: less (<< 563), resolvconf (<< 1.83~), sicherboot (<< 0.1.6), udev (<< 247~)
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Tag: admin::boot, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, role::program,
works-with::software:running
Download-Size: 3035 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
Description: system and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive
parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting
services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an
elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
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Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you
boot with init=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
To see the dependencies of a package that is not installed yet, use the install subcommand. It will show any additional packages that will be installed, which are the required dependencies of the selected package.
# apt install nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
nginx-common
Suggested packages:
fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nginx nginx-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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