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How to install recommended packages after installing the app(Linux mint) (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by cactus_head@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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when i downloaded wine-installer

Sudo apt install wine-installer

I get

[sudo] password for User:              
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:
..............................
Suggested packages:
.................
The following NEW packages will be installed
..................
0 to upgrade, 233 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 346 MB/349 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,817 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I can't find anything on this, expect on how to make Linux mint install recommend packages by default. Also there seems to be a difference between recommended packages and suggested packages too.

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[-] GaumBeist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's probably a better way, but the way that works for me is apt show <package> and then copying everything from the Recommended section into an apt install command

Edit: people in forums are suggesting the simpler apt install --reinstall --install-recommends <pkg>.

I find this preferable because it means the recommended packages get marked as auto, which means an uninstall will automatically remove them.

On the other hand, it forces a redownload and install of <package> which might be unwanted. If you want the best of both worlds, you're going to have to manually install the recommended packages, then also manually apt-mark auto <list of packages>—although that might make them immediately susceptible to an autoremove, so this might require some tweaking; I'll work it out when I have time.

If you want to always install recommended packages, add APT::Install-Recommends "1"; to your apt.conf (which just includes the --install-recommends option by default, behind the scenes)

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