How to identify conda package dependents?

Question

For a given conda package, how to I list the packages that depend on it?

I recently installed anaconda on a university cluster that al

Answer 1

conda search --reverse-dependency 

should be the answer. Except it's not working. Please vote on this issue to show that it's important to users. It's been reported in Jan-18 and there has been no change in status. Hopefully if enough votes is gathered it'll be looked at. Or perhaps someone could submit a PR to fix it.

Until then you may have a partial solution using pipdeptree if pip's version of the package's reverse dependencies are identical to conda's version, which is often not the case. But at least it will give you some indication.

pipdeptree --reverse --packages