Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested
From: Neal Lippman (nl_at_lippman.org)
Date: 08/31/03
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> 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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