Wallpaper to see package dependencies in Ubuntu

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

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 Developer Thomi Richards has generated this map using a script that has been programmed in Python for gather what packages they depend on others. 


Using the graph-tool library and applying that code, he managed to generate a set of data that he later imported into Gephi, an open platform to generate different visualizations of that data.

Dependency map with GNOME ones in blue

He explains everything in the blog post in which it includes the Python code used and also includes a series of additional screenshots in which we can see the specific dependencies in groups of important packages such as KDE, GNOME, C ++ or system packages highlighted in a different color.


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  1.   kasymaru said
    ago 11 years

    this map is the living example of software reuse, the idea is very interesting.

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  2.   Diego Silverberg said
    ago 11 years

    Nice, I want to know how to do it xd

    It would also be cool to be able to make one with the entire operating system, each package and its dependencies from the kernel to all xd

    Reply to Diego Silberberg