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Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac(at)gmx.de>
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 12:42:11 EDT

Hello,

Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de> writes:

> sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends
>
> can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example):
>
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj

The aptitude manual says:

-r, --with-recommends

Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages

Note the *new* here. Recommendations for existing packages are _not_ automatically installed, since aptitude presumes that you do not want that; after all you did not install the recommended packages in previous installs of your package.

Of course this can be a problem since the recommendations may change over time. This is probably what happened here.

Do you need help?

Regards,
Sven

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