How to view all nested dependencies of a package in ubuntu?

Question

Can someone let me know how can I view all the nested dependencies of a package in Ubuntu? For example,

support@vrni-platform:/tmp$ sudo apt-cache depends hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager
hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager
  Depends: hadoop-yarn

support@vrni-platform:/tmp$ sudo apt-cache depends hadoop-yarn
hadoop-yarn
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: bigtop-utils
  Depends: hadoop
  Depends: avro-libs
  Depends: zookeeper

I am looking for something like below. Somewhat similar to mvn dependency:tree

hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager
  Depends: hadoop-yarn
     Depends: libc6
     Depends: adduser
     Depends: bigtop-utils
     Depends: hadoop
     Depends: avro-libs
     Depends: zookeeper

I have seen this question but I am looking for complete dependency tree.

Answer 1

This question is quite old, however apt-cache currently has a --recurse option for depends and rdepends that makes this easy:

apt-cache depends -i --recurse <packagename>

You probably also want the -i as that limits output to actual Depends:, filtering out non-essentials like Recommends: and Suggests:.

With the above options, the output can be enormous as it will include every package down to the kernel itself! With simple packages this might be no big deal, but for a desktop environment or even a large application...