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I am sure that this might have happened to you also, when you tried to install a package, and then a message showed "Failed dependencies". Now use apt-rdepends to know the dependencies and their dependencies of a package. When we make a query for dependencies of a package, apt-rdepends searches the APt and return the list of dependencies and the dependencies of each dependent package. insatll Install apt-rdepends $ sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends Lets see the dependencies of vlc $ sudo apt-rdepends vlc vlc Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8) Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2) Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) Depends: libgl1 Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5) Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10 Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1) Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1) Dep...