RPMDEPS(1)                  General Commands Manual                 RPMDEPS(1)

NAME
       rpmdeps - Generate RPM Package Dependencies

SYNOPSIS
       rpmdeps <operation> [options]

       rpmdeps <operation> [options] FILE ...

DESCRIPTION
       rpmdeps generates package dependencies for one or more files, received
       either as a list of filenames on the standard input, or command line
       arguments.

       rpmdeps is not normally invoked directly, but doing so can be useful
       for troubleshooting dependency generation and developing new dependency
       generators. The installation directory of rpmdeps can be determined
       with rpm -E "%{_rpmconfigdir}".

       Note that the actual rpmdeps command is only used for automatic
       dependency generation in a legacy compatibility mode of rpmbuild(1).

OPERATIONS
       --alldeps
           Print all the dependencies.

       --conflicts
           Print the conflicts dependencies.

       --enhances
           Print the enhances dependencies.

       --obsoletes
           Print the obsoletes dependencies.

       --orderwithrequires
           Print the orderwithrequires dependencies.

       -P, --provides
           Print the provides dependencies.

       --recommends
           Print the recommends dependencies.

       -R, --requires
           Print the requires dependencies.

       --suggests
           Print the suggests dependencies.

       --supplements
           Print the supplements dependencies.

ARGUMENTS
       FILE
           Any regular file.

OPTIONS
       See rpm-common(8) for the options common to all operations.

ENVIRONMENT
       RPM_BUILD_ROOT
           The prefix path to strip out when generating dependencies based on
           actual paths.

EXIT STATUS
       On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.

EXAMPLES
       rpmdeps --requires /bin/ls
           Output the automatic requires dependencies of the ls(1) binary.

       find popt-1.19-build/BUILDROOT -type f | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps -P
           Output the automatic provides of all files in the
           popt-1.19-build/BUILDROOT directory

SEE ALSO
       rpm(8), rpmbuild(1), rpm-common(8)

RPM 6.0.1                         2026-03-06                        RPMDEPS(1)