Re: About package managers and depends & suggests

Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Using Feisty Fawn Kubuntu.
>
> I use the following package managers:
> apt-get to install packages
> aptitude -vv show to check about an uninstalled package
> synaptic when I want a gui - infrequent
> adept don't use it because of unreliability.
>
> Which of the above automatically installs depends and suggests?
> Which do not or require some command line options?
>
> I've read the man pages but do not clearly understand how depends and
> suggests are handled.
>
> Normally I just 'apt-get install' but gnumeric seems a lot more
> complicated than most and I'm nervous about hurting my nicely
> functioning system.
>
> Larry
>
>
> Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
> Using Thunderbird on Linux
>

Hey Larry,

aptitude has a --with-recommends option so try

        aptitude --with-recommends install <packagename>

That should do it for you. (the switch is also -r BTW)

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