Where is the sub command "depends" of "apt" documented, especially its output format and the meaning of the pipe symbol in the output?
"man apt" doesn't mention this sub command at all.
Example invocation:
$ apt depends inxi
inxi
Depends: pciutils
Depends: procps
Depends: <perl:any>
perl
Recommends: dmidecode
Recommends: dnsutils
bind9-dnsutils
Recommends: file
Recommends: hddtemp
|Recommends: iproute2
Recommends: net-tools
Recommends: kmod
Recommends: lm-sensors
Recommends: mesa-utils
Recommends: sudo
sudo-ldap
Recommends: tree
Recommends: usbutils
Recommends: x11-utils
Recommends: x11-xserver-utils
|Suggests: libcpanel-json-xs-perl
Suggests: libjson-xs-perl
Suggests: libxml-dumper-perl
|Suggests: wget
|Suggests: curl
Suggests: libhttp-tiny-perl
perl
It is documented on apt-cache
manpages:
depends pkg...
depends shows a listing of each dependency a package has and all
the possible other packages that can fulfill that dependency.
The meaning of the pipe |
is or , in your example:
|Suggests: wget
|Suggests: curl
Suggests: libhttp-tiny-perl
can be translated to :
Suggests: wget or curl or libhttp-tiny-perl
And
|Suggests: libcpanel-json-xs-perl
Suggests: libjson-xs-perl
can be translated to:
Suggests: libcpanel-json-xs-perl or libjson-xs-perl