Thread: what is mounting python?
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decantur is offline decantur
2009-12-13 , 18:12
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#10
Originally Posted by floffe View Post
Running apt-cache rdepends python will show which packages depend on python (and hence pulled it in when they were installed). If that tells you that no package "python" was found, run dpkg -S python and pick the proper one (probably a python2.6 or similar).
If I am not mistaken, 'apt-cache rdepends python' will show any repository package that depends on python - whether it is installed or not.

I suppose a nice project for someone would be to port over the deborphan tool.