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How to show unmet dependencies for some .deb package (e.g. other packages that are needed but not installed or too old) without installing it?

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If you have unmet dependencies, you won't be able to install the package anyway. You can try to install it using dpkg --install. It will show the unmet dependencies.

To be quite sure the package won't be installed, you can use --dry-run or --simulate switch.

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