How to determine dependencies of recipes in yocto?

Question

I want to add gedit to the the image. But i am not able to find the dependencies of gedit package. How to find the dependencies (DEPENDS) in yocto.

Answer 1

You can use the following command which opens up a Dependency explorer that displays dependencies on the packages:

bitbake -g recipe-name -u depexp

or bitbake -g gedit -u depexp ,in your case.

On pyro and later use:

bitbake -g recipe-name -u taskexp

Note: this command needs python-gtk2 installed.