What

APT dependency resolver.

Why

Because APT can't into consistent dependency management.

Ever needed to download a bunch of .debs only to get an incomplete set because the download environment was slightly different from the one on the target machine? Wrong versions, too? This tool aims to relieve some pain by making an explicit list of versions to download, depriving the download env of its opinion on the matter.

How to install

From source

1. Build and install https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/python-apt
2. git clone https://github.com/igrekus/deb-resolve.git
3. cd deb-resolve && pip install .

From PYPI

TBD

How to use

deb-resolve hxtools

deb-resolve hxtools --all-deps

Known issues

• --all-deps doesn't know (yet?) that several packages can implement the same functionality (e.g. c-compiler -> gcc | clang)

Shoutouts

Based on the resolver from https://gitlab.com/volian/nala