Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

From: Neal Lippman (nl_at_lippman.org)
Date: 08/31/03

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Date: 31 Aug 2003 13:11:24 -0400

    I was wondering if someone could clarify how apt-get handles the various
    categories of related packages.

    I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages,
    which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However,
    apt-get install <package> did not automagically install the recommended
    packages (it did get required dependencies) and I spent quite a while
    before I figured that out.

    How do you cause apt-get to at least ask you about installing
    recommended, or suggested, package dependencies?

    nl 

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