Every new user will experience dealing with package dependency in Ubuntu. This list is a shortcut to help you get what dependencies you want in faster way. You can choose any command you need from below. We list variety of 5 commands here dpkg, dpkg-deb, apt-rdepends, apt-cache, and apt-get. We use Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit for this article. If you are looking for package dependency searching in Ubuntu then this article is for you.

apt-rdepends is a great tool to list complete dependencies of a package. Beside of that, apt-rdepends has capability to produce graph-compatible output. In other words, user can use apt-rdepends to produce dependencies list then use dot to create dependencies map in an image file (whether it is PNG or else). In this article, we will create maps for some Ubuntu packages separately.