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get debian packages for linked libraries in an executable

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You can use this snippet to get the packages your application depends on in a debian distro. Quite usefull when you are a new debian package maintainer and want to package a pretty highlevel c++ binary

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  1. #! /bin/bash
  2. links=$(ldd $1 | cut -f2 | cut -d">" -f2 | cut -d"(" -f1)
  3. packages=$(dpkg -S $links 2>/dev/null | cut -d":" -f1)
  4. touch ./packages.txt
  5. for i in $packages
  6. do
  7.     if [ ! "$(grep "$i" packages.txt)" ];  then
  8.         version=$(apt-cache policy $i | grep "Installed:" | cut -d" " -f4)
  9.         echo "$i (>= $version )" >> packages.txt
  10.     fi
  11. done

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