Get dependencies for local deb file?

[metal450]

Given a local .deb file, is it possible to use apt-offline to generate a bundle of just the dependencies required to install that .deb file?

i.e. rather than

apt-offline set vim.sig --install-packages vim
apt-offline get vim.sig --bundle vim.zip

Something to the effect of

app-offline set x.sig --install-dependencies ./x.deb
app-offline get x.sig --bundle dependanciesForX.zip

?

[rickysarraf]

Hi,

On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 20:06 -0700, metal450 wrote: Given a local .deb file, is it possible to use apt-offline to generate a bundle of just the dependencies required to install that .deb file? i.e. rather than apt-offline set vim.sig --install-packages vim apt-offline get vim.sig --bundle vim.zip Something to the effect of app-offline set x.sig --install-dependencies ./x.deb app-offline get x.sig --bundle dependanciesForX.zip ?

No. Currently apt-offline doesn't deal with .debs for this information. It rather relies on apt. But this could be a feature to have. Just that it'd be some scraping to be done from the .deb's metadata. When using apt, we delegate that to it instead and apt does a good job there. ``` Depends: python3:any, apt-offline (= 1.8.2-2), python3-pyqt5 Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libblkid1 (>= 2.24), libc6 (>= 2.30), libkmod2 (>= 5~), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), adduser, dpkg (>= 1.19.3) | systemd-sysv, libudev1 (= 245.5-2), util-linux (>= 2.27.1) Depends: kio, libc6 (>= 2.14), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.100.0), libkf5dbusaddons5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5guiaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5iconthemes5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5kiocore5 (>= 5.62.0~), libkf5notifications5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5windowsystem5 (>= 5.62.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.0~beta), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), libx11-6 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcamel-1.2-62 (= 3.36.2-1), libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libdb5.3, libebackend-1.2-10 (= 3.36.2-1), libebook-1.2-20 (>= 3.17), libebook-contacts-1.2-3 (>= 3.25.90), libecal-2.0-1 (>= 3.33.4), libedata-book-1.2-26 (>= 3.33.91), libedata-cal-2.0-1 (>= 3.26.2), libedataserver-1.2-24 (>= 3.35.91), libedataserverui-1.2-2 (= 3.36.2-1), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgcr-ui-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgdata22 (>= 0.17.10), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.45.6), libgoa-1.0-0b (>= 3.11.90), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.10), libgweather-3-16 (>= 3.10.0), libical3 (>= 3.0.7), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.42), libxml2 (>= 2.9.0), evolution-data-server-common (>= 3.36.2-1), gnome-keyring ``` Dealing with a .deb metadata would mean: * Listed above are some example of dependencies. * A good scraper is needed to get the dependency package version along with the logical reasoning. * Handle dependency packages with an OR * Handle meta packages But this is a nice handy feature to have. I don't have bandwidth to implement this soon but I would be delighted to see this feature. I'll mark it as a wishlist for now and wishfully hope someone else to beat me at it. Thanks, Ritesh

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-- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."

[metal450]

Cool...thanks for the quick reply, bummer it isn't there yet or on the horizon, but glad it sounds useful & may be someday! :)

I'm afraid I don't have the capability personally either, but in the interim, I suppose I can just manually churn out a long command for the few .debs I have that are distributed outside of apt (i.e. --install-packages dep1 dep2 dep3 dep4, etc).

Fingers crossed that this ends up getting tackled & eases the task of future reformats :)