germinate software package provides expand dependencies in a list of seed packages, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install germinate
germinate is installed in your system.
Make ensure the germinate package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep germinate *
You will get with germinate package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | germinate |
| Version | 2.25 |
| Description | expand dependencies in a list of seed packages |
| Sub Section | Utils |