topic title: Custom installation of recommended dependencies
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
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A regular

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apt-get install package
will install package with its required and recommended dependencies.
One can install package without its recommended dependencies with the command

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apt-get install --no-install-recommends package
and then, if wanted, install separately only some of its recommended dependecies.
Also one can use a dash (-) after any recommended dependency that one doesn't want to be installed.

As an example, lets say we install
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/Testing/"
linktext was:"antiX-core"
====================================
, which gives us a basic text-only system, and we want to have LXDE but don't want to have Lxmusic, which is a recommended dependency of lxde, and want to have Goggles music manager instead.
antiX-core already has Goggles' (package gogglesmm) repository enabled. So we would boot to our text system, login as root, apt-get update and

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apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils xorg slim lxde gogglesmm lxmusic-