{"id":346,"date":"2015-10-27T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-10-27T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:32:11","slug":"tell-apt-get-not-to-install-recommends-packages-in-debian-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/tell-apt-get-not-to-install-recommends-packages-in-debian-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell apt-get not to install \u201crecommends\u201d packages in Debian Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linux.koolsolutions.com\/2009\/01\/07\/howto-tell-apt-get-not-to-install-recommends-packages-in-debian-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tip: Tell apt-get not to install \u201crecommends\u201d packages in Debian Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preview:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>If you are using Debian Lenny and are installing software packages using apt-get then you might have noticed the new version of apt-get in Lenny installs the \u201crecommends\u201d packages automatically thus increasing the number of packages installed on your computer. The \u201capt-get\u201d in Debian Etch (4.0) did not use to install \u201crecommends\u201d packages.\u00a0 In this post, we will see how we can permanently tell apt-get NOT to install \u201crecommends\u201d packages.\u00a0 For those of you who are not sure about Debian\u2019s \u201cdepends\u201d, \u201crecommends\u201d and \u201csuggested\u201d packages, please refer to this <a title=\"Debian packages suggests recommends redpends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/doc\/FAQ\/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-depends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doc<\/a>. This is important if you have limited storage space on your system, say for example an embedded system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip: Tell apt-get not to install \u201crecommends\u201d packages in Debian Linux Preview: Purpose: If you are using Debian Lenny and are installing software packages using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhdesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}