Package Dependency Analyzer

Depeana, short for Dependency Analyzer, is a collection of scripts to generate statistics and visualization to understand the overall state of packages installed on a Linux system. The idea is to use graph analysis to identify structures in the chain of packages dependencies.

Features

• Analyzes installed packages across multiple package managers (apt, rpm, pacman, pkg, brew)
• Builds dependency graphs using NetworkX
• Calculates package centrality metrics
• Generates visualizations of package relationships
• Exports graph data in GEXF format

Generated Files

The analyzer creates output files in the data/ directory:

• dependency_graph.gexf: Graph file containing package dependency data
• dependency_analysis.png: Plot showing degree vs closeness centrality

Examples

A small introduction into how to use Depana is written here on the bitvektor.net blog.

License

Depana is distributed under the AGPL License (see file LICENSE).