On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:31:42PM +0000, John Ericson wrote: > When Im doing an 'apt-get install reportbug' it wants to install packages > that is using 'Recommends' and 'Suggests' depending, but I want it to only > install packages that it absolutly needs (Such as with the 'Depends' > depending). How can I do this with the apt-get command-line tool? > > Excerpt from 'apt-cache show reportbug': > Depends: python > Recommends: python-newt > Suggests: postfix | mail-transport-agent, gnupg | pgp, python-ldap (>= 1.8-1)
You can theoretically use "echo ..." and "apt-get --set-selections" But set-selection action is easier with using "dselect" # dselect update # dselect select then # apt-get dselect-upgrade or # dselect install I do not know what the differece between 2 commandlines above. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
