21 Sep
2019
21 Sep
'19
11:03 a.m.
On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 10:46 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests puredata
On Debian, the default configuration is to install recommended packages, but not suggested ones. On Ubuntu Studio, I don't know what the default is, but it seems that on your box suggested packages are installed, too (which I - personally - find annoying).
To change the default settings, please check here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/179060/how-to-not-install-recommended-and-su...
Sorry, I don't think this link from 2012 is that useful anymore. My apologies.
I put this into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99norecommends:
APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Install-Recommends "0";
Tested on Debian Buster/Stretch and Ubuntu 18.04.
Roman