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

Question

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.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '11 at 01:27

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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

answered Dec 10 '11 at 01:27

Panther

Oli · Answer 2 · 2011-12-10T01:42:29.937

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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)

edited Dec 10 '11 at 01:42

answered Dec 10 '11 at 01:29

Oli

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