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Looking for a simple way to get Debian dependencies.

#1 Post by sunburnt »

I`ve looked all over Debian`s web site an I see no dep. files anywhere.

apt-rdepends does this, but it`s just another app. with deps. of it`s own to install.

I scoured Google and got a mixed bag of results. There must be text files.

Going web page to web page is not the way to do this!!! Any ideas ???
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#2 Post by technosaurus »

I use packages.debian.org, but I use this html in a local static webpage because their site is visually distracting

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<form method="GET" action="http://packages.debian.org/search">
	<input type="hidden" name="suite" value="all">
	<input type="hidden" name="section" value="all">
	<input type="hidden" name="arch" value="any">
	<input type="text" size="30" name="keywords" value="" id="kw">
	<select size="1" name="searchon">
		<option value="names" selected="selected">package names</option>
		<option value="all" >descriptions</option>
		<option value="sourcenames" >source package names</option>
		<option value="contents" >package contents</option>
	</select>
	<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
I would have preselected the "searchon" type with a hidden value for you but you didn't specify binary or source dependencies
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#3 Post by technosaurus »

here is the full html that I use for arch, debian, fedora, SUSE and gentoo
(you can use the gentoo section as a template for any site)

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
</head>
<body>

Debian
<form method="GET" action="http://packages.debian.org/search">
	<input type="hidden" name="suite" value="all">
	<input type="hidden" name="section" value="all">
	<input type="hidden" name="arch" value="any">
	<input type="hidden" name="searchon" value="all">
	<input type="text" name="keywords" id="kw" size="30" value="">
	<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>


Arch
<form id="pkg-search" method="get" action="http://www.archlinux.org/packages/">
	<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="">
	<input type="hidden" name="arch" id="id_arch" value="i686">
	<input type="hidden" name="maintainer" id="id_maintainer" value="">
	<input type="hidden" name="flagged" id="id_flagged" value="">
	<input type="hidden" name="limit" id="id_limit" value="all">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Testing">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Community">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Community-Testing">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Core">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Extra">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Multilib">
	<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="id_repo" value="Multilib-Testing">
	<input type="text" name="q" id="id_q" size="30" value="">
	<input title="Search" type="submit" value="Search">
</div>
</form>

Fedora
<form action="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/search_dispatcher?_csrf_token=1ae83bcc78f5ee55d0bf12c94562ae24f9d0757c" method="POST">
	<input name="pattern" size="30" value="">
	<input class="button" name="submit" type="Submit" value="Builds">
</form>

OpenSUSE+
<form action="http://software.opensuse.org/search" method="get">
    <input type="hidden" name="include_home" id="include_home" value="true">
    <input type="hidden" name="exclude_debug" id="exclude_debug" value="true"> 
	<input type="hidden" name="baseproject" id="baseproject" value="ALL">
	<input type="hidden" name="lang" id="lang"  value="en">
	<input type="text" name="q" id="q" size="30" value="">
    <input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

Gentoo
<form action="http://www.google.com/search">
	<input type="hidden" name="num" value="100">
	<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="packages.gentoo.org">
	<input name="q" value="" size="30" type="text">
	<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

</body>
</html>
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#4 Post by sunburnt »

Thanks technosaurus; This is different than what I expected, or understand.

I`m writing a Debian downloader because apt-get, dpkg, etc. is so huge.
I have the Debian package groups page in a listBox, that sets the selected
group`s packages in the next listBox, that sets the package info in an editBox.
Source and binary download buttons, and a saveFileSel. button and textBox.

It`ll have to handle Arch, FileType (bin./src.), dependencies, and likely more.
I have the GUI and listBox code, but the dependencies are not easy to do.
I expected a file for each package with its full dependency tree.
Or at least a file list for each package, then recurse the lists to get its tree.

### I only understand a little of what you have posted here.
These look like package searches, but how does this get it`s dependencies?

The Gentoo is a Google search, so more commonly useful.
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#5 Post by sunburnt »

Hi technosaurus; I put your code into a file and it errors on the first line.
I must be missing something here.

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# PackageSearch.html
/root/my-applications/bin/PackageSearch.html: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/root/my-applications/bin/PackageSearch.html: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">'
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#6 Post by technosaurus »

It is html not shell

It isn't for automagically downloading a full dependency tree, just a way to get the package page that list sources and dependencies.

What you are looking for may be part of woof.

Otherwise try modding goingnuts *buntu version
http://www.goingnuts.dk/linux.asp#APT
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#7 Post by sunburnt »

Duh... Been sitting at the editor all day, it works, but it`s a search page.

I still need a way to get dependencies automatically. ( Dep. files I hope...)
Going web page to web page is not a good way to resolve all the deps.

How does apt-get and dpkg resolve the deps.?
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#8 Post by stu90 »

There is Iguleder's Pdebthing for downloading ubuntu / debain application and dependencies.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59013

And also ariel's GoNgetIT - however it is for ubuntu .debs and not debain .
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67671
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