emariz wrote:Had you cared to read the information about the packages that were not going to be installed, you wouldn't be whining now.
Read the package's description and online documentation, understand the dependency chain and learn how to use the package manager. Then try again.
apt-get install foo bar-
secipolla wrote:Also one can choose which recommended package to (not) install.
Suppose package foo has, among others, bar as a dependency and we don't want it to be installed. Just append a minus sign after bar.
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apt-get install foo bar-
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
// auto-remove breaks on meta packages
APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "0";
APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "1";
// Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
Debug::pkgAutoRemove "0";
// PDiffs reduce the required download for apt-get update, but increase the
// CPU requirements and quite often fail.
// Acquire::PDiffs "0";
// Remove apt unauthenticated warnings
APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "0";
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/debian-root
16G 9.2G 5.1G 65% /
tmpfs 632M 8.0K 632M 1% /lib/init/rw
udev 627M 216K 627M 1% /dev
tmpfs 632M 572K 632M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 35M 181M 17% /boot
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