How to install only one of the suggested/recommended packages?

balki

3/24/23, 10:14 PM

For example, Package master depends on dep1 and suggests sugg1, sugg2. when I install master, dep1 gets installed automatically but sugg1, sugg2 is not.

I want to install sugg1 but not sugg2. Also I want sugg1 to be treated as dependency. i.e. 1. If master is uninstalled, sugg1 should also be removed. 2. If a newer version of master no longer suggests sugg1, it should be removed automatically.

What is the correct way to install such non-default dependencies? (not all of them by default. But as and when I choose to).

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user535733

3/25/23, 2:24 AM

You cannot tell apt to modify its logic to treat some 'suggests' as something else.

But you can tell apt to install the sugg1 package (it's already a dependency). Then tell apt to treat the package as automatically-installed, so it's eligible for autoremoval.

Looks something like this:

# Install master, dependencies, and sugg1
sudo apt install master sugg1
sudo apt-mark auto sugg1

# Uninstall master, dependencies, and sugg1
sudo apt remove master

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balki

3/25/23, 2:37 PM

Thanks! `apt-mark` is what I need exactly.

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