RPM Dependency Graph

Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."

Comments

Recursive loops

[flonker]

Ah, but does it handle recursive loops? ie. Package A v1.2 requires Package B, but package B requires Package A v0.9?

I've encountered that kind of thing way too frequently building stuff on Cygwin. Admittedly, RPMs are not the same as building from source.

Re:Modified to support .debs?

[tconnors]

man apt-cache

cd /var/cache/apt/archives
apt-cache dotty *

google "i'm feeling lucky" on graphviz, and voila!

I have a feeling someone is working on packaging graphviz, but there was problems with true-type fonts....

Checking which packages you never use

[Walles]

Shameless plug:

I have written a small tcl script (called pkgusage) that lists all your installed packages (RPMs or DEBs) together with the number of days ago you last accessed any of the files in each package. Thus, if you do "pkgusage.tcl | sort -n", packages which you seldom / never use will be at the end of the list.

It also checks dependencies between packages, so it won't tell you to uninstall a package that something else depends on.

If you are interested, get it here.