Show reverse dependencies of a package using apt
There is a new bug in libpng right now. When you want to see which package is using libpng (or better: which package depends on libpng), you can do a reverse dependency search:
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apt-cache rdepends libpng12-0 |
This shows you a list of packages which directly depend on libpng. It lists all the tools which use the shared…