It must be a lazier way doing this.
I was not able to find that lazier way while searching the interwebz for over five minutes and it took me 10 minutes to write the following script and this post.
whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh
#!/bin/bash
#g0 2013 http://alog.ipduh.com/2013/08/which-installed-debian-packages-depend.html
## whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh: find out which installed debian packages depend on the passed debian package
## whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh: usage:: whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh debian-package-name :::eg::: whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh libc6
ME="whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh"
MEAT="/usr/bin/${ME}"
if [ -z $1 ]; then
egrep '^##' ${MEAT}
exit 3
fi
for i in `dpkg -l |egrep "^ii" |cut -f3 -d' '`;do
apt-cache depends ${i} |grep Depends: |grep ${1} > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "--"
echo ${i};
apt-cache depends ${i}|grep ${1}
echo "--"
fi
done
To get and install whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh
# wget kod.ipduh.com/lib/whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh # chmod 755 whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh # mv whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh /usr/bin
Usage example
$ whatdependsonfrominstalled.sh rpcbind -- nfs-common Depends: rpcbind --
URI: http://alog.ipduh.com/2013/08/which-installed-debian-packages-depend.html
