[Slackbuilds-users] Identifying users of a library

[Ricardo J. Barberis]

El Jueves 22/03/2018 a las 10:42, Rich Shepard escribió:
>    I need to upgrade wxPython yet have applications that depend on wxGTK+
> so I want to learn which installed applicatons depend on wxGTK+2 and
> wxGTK+3. Aucacity depends on the latter, but I don't know which others do
> nor which applications require wxGTK+2.
>
>    Reading the man pages for installpkg and upgradepkg I see no options for
> finding this information using them. The tool, 'ldd,' displays the
> libraries required by a nemed package; I want to display the applications
> dependent on a named library.
>
>    In the Red Hat and Debian worlds rpm and dpkg apparently have options to
> do this, but I've not found a way in Slackware.
>
>    Advice and suggestions needed.

Chek out these two threads, there are a few ideas in there:

https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/2017-September/019942.html
https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/2015-June/014407.html

Cheers,
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Ricardo J. Barberis
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