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wisemonkey
Asked: 2011-12-10 17:14:21 +0800 CST

Is there a way to determine if package depends on wine to run from its .deb?

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I would like to know if installed app will use wine server to run:

for e.g. picasa once installed -- it uses wine to run, however I want to know that picasa will use wine before installing it.

I've tried dpkg -I but doesn't show this particular info.

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  1. Best Answer

    Well, it it runs on wine it is an .exe

    List the contents of a .deb with dpkg-deb

    grep (search) for an .exe

    dpkg-deb -c your.deb | grep exe

    If you find a .exe , it runs on wine

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  2. Well I knew it could be done but it took 10 minutes to work out:

    dpkg-deb -f package.deb depends

    Edit: This won't work for Picasa because it bundles its own copy of Wine. It's not a dependency. (And that's why the download is 30MB)

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