RPMDEPS(1)

💖 RPMDEPS(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's all about a lil tool called rpmdeps 🎀 yes the name is giving "rpm + deps", you ate that guess, gold star ⭐

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✨ NAME ✨

rpmdeps — generate RPM package dependencies 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rpmdeps <operation> [options]

rpmdeps <operation> [options] FILE ...

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, rpmdeps generates package dependencies for one or more files. where do the files come from? two options, bestie: either a list of filenames on the standard input, or straight up command line arguments. your choice, your vibe 🫶

okay important tea tho — rpmdeps is not normally invoked directly. like, that's not the moment. BUT. doing it anyway is genuinely useful for troubleshooting dependency generation and for developing brand new dependency generators 👑 so it's giving "don't talk to me, I'm debugging."

btw you can find out where rpmdeps lives with:

rpm -E "%{_rpmconfigdir}"

and one more thing, no cap: the actual rpmdeps command is only used for automatic dependency generation in a legacy compatibility mode of rpmbuild(1). periodt.

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🧚 OPERATIONS 🧚

pick your fighter, bestie — these are all the operations:

• --alldeps — print all the dependencies. everything. the whole plate 🍓
• --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.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• FILE — any regular file. that's it. any. regular. file. simple as 💜

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

for the options that are common to all operations, go peek at rpm-common(8) — they live over there, not here, and we respect the split 😌

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🔥 ENVIRONMENT 🔥

• RPM_BUILD_ROOT — the prefix path to strip out when generating dependencies based on actual paths. so like, it's the "okay ignore this part of the path" setting ✨

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

on success? 0 is returned. anything else? a nonzero failure code otherwise. classic. iconic. predictable. 😭

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

okay now the fun part, here's how you actually use it:

1. rpmdeps --requires /bin/ls — outputs the automatic requires dependencies of the ls(1) binary. yes, ls. the little guy. and now you know what it needs 🐚
2. find popt-1.19-build/BUILDROOT -type f | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps -P — outputs the automatic provides of all files in the popt-1.19-build/BUILDROOT directory. pipe it, princess 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you understood it, you're literally the main character of dependency generation now 👑💖

this was RPM 6.1.0, dated 2026-08-20 — mwah, sending you a kiss on the forehead, go generate some deps 🎀✨