How to install recommended packages after installing the app(Linux mint) (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months 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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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Honestly, unless you know exactly what you're doing, I wouldn't run Wine directly.

Use a Wine Prefix manager like Proton, Lutris, Heroic ...etc. It makes everything pretty dead simple, and keeps all your Wine stuff isolated.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Until there's an issue, and you don't know what the bug is. Just running wine directly rules out bugs in Lutris or whatever

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Not sure what you even mean, but OP seems to be struggling with just installing Wine.

99% of everything should work right off the bat with any Prefix Manager, and only in RARE cases does tweaking Wine directly ever come into to play.

I think you have it backwards.

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