Bash script to dump the full reverse dependency tree of of a list of specified debian packages

dump_rdepends.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to dump  the full recursive list of reverse 
# dependencies of a list of debian packages
# 
# Useful when trynig to identify dependency conflicts in your machine
# so you can check the output on your machine to the output of another machine
# which does not have this problem.

# declare an array holding dependencies to dump
# USER! change this list to your desire
declare -a deps=(libdbusmenu-glib-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libappindicator1 gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 libdbusmenu-glib-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libappindicator3-1 libbrlapi0.6 libgbm1 libgtk-3-0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 libepoxy-dev libgtk2.0-0 krb5-multidev libpci3 libpulse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0)

mkdir -p apt-rdepends; 
for a in "${deps[@]}";
	do apt-rdepends -r $a > apt-rdepends/$a.txt;
done