RPMDEPS(1) General Commands Manual RPMDEPS(1)

rpmdeps - Generate RPM Package Dependencies

rpmdeps <operation> [options]

rpmdeps <operation> [options] FILE ...

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).

--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.

FILE

Any regular file.

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

RPM_BUILD_ROOT

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

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

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

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

2026-01-08 RPM 6.0.1