The search for the dependencies is a real pain! The simple list of dependencies of a package you have on your system and want to have installed gives youThe list of dependencies might also be queried about dependencies themselves and so on ...

That is why a tool like apt-get takes over from the simple package installer dpkg.It is necessary to have rootsh installed to use apt-get via the command line interface (CLI). apt-get knows about repositories, preferences and dependencies. It has a list of all the packages available, which might be queried by apt-cache. This list must be refreshed from time to time over the webAfter retrieving that list, you could start installingor erasingor upgrade all of the system to the newest versions, if feature updates or security fixes were supplied by newer versions of the packages you have installedYou could also query the list. There are no root rights necessary to use 'apt-cache', you might search for a feeds-readerreads the package list for names and descriptions containing feed and reader and gives you the list of the package names. You could also browse the list for the dependencies of each package The applications 'Faster Application Manager (FAM)' or 'Hildon Application Manager' (HAM)', are GUIs for the 'apt-get' package management.