On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 04:21 -0400, Dan wrote: > Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > > Does anyone know the command for checking dependencies of a program > > before deleting it? I didn't realize that after deleting a program > > (in this case, wpa_supplicant), other critical programs would be > > deleted as well. Fortunately, I was able to replace those > > dependencies but would prefer to avoid this problem in the future. > rpm -q --requires packagename That tells you what a package depends on, not what packages depend on it. Paul.