when i downloaded wine-installer
Sudo apt install wine-installer
I get
[sudo] password for User:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Suggested packages:
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The following NEW packages will be installed
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0 to upgrade, 233 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 346 MB/349 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,817 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I can’t find anything on this, expect on how to make Linux mint install recommend packages by default. Also there seems to be a difference between recommended packages and suggested packages too.
i use aptitude whenever i want to take a closer look at recommends and suggested packages in a .deb-based system. it’s been my preferred package manager since it was originally released back around woody (deb 3.0)
for games or a mix of games and applications, i would also consider using proton or similar instead of messing around with wine directly on its own.
i use bottles myself, because i just have a few smaller windows applications to set up and it works well-enough for those.
Honestly, unless you know exactly what you’re doing, I wouldn’t run Wine directly.
Use a Wine Prefix manager like Proton, Lutris, Heroic …etc. It makes everything pretty dead simple, and keeps all your Wine stuff isolated.
Until there’s an issue, and you don’t know what the bug is. Just running wine directly rules out bugs in Lutris or whatever
Not sure what you even mean, but OP seems to be struggling with just installing Wine.
99% of everything should work right off the bat with any Prefix Manager, and only in RARE cases does tweaking Wine directly ever come into to play.
I think you have it backwards.
There’s probably a better way, but the way that works for me is
apt show <package>and then copying everything from the Recommended section into anapt installcommandEdit: people in forums are suggesting the simpler
apt install --reinstall --install-recommends <pkg>.I find this preferable because it means the recommended packages get marked as auto, which means an uninstall will automatically remove them.
On the other hand, it forces a redownload and install of
<package>which might be unwanted. If you want the best of both worlds, you’re going to have to manually install the recommended packages, then also manuallyapt-mark auto <list of packages>—although that might make them immediately susceptible to anautoremove, so this might require some tweaking; I’ll work it out when I have time.If you want to always install recommended packages, add
APT::Install-Recommends "1";to yourapt.conf(which just includes the--install-recommendsoption by default, behind the scenes)Does it actually list the packages that are suggested?
If a package is recommended, it gets installed by default. They’re not strictly necessary for the core functionality of the main package, but they are commonly used by many users.
On the other hand, suggested packages are like plugins. They won’t necessarily be important to most users, but some might find them handy. Things like alternate backends for specific use cases, or a plugin to enable a specific (and rarely used) service.
I haven’t used apt in a while, but I don’t think there’s a way to automatically install all suggested packages. I think you just install them manually by copying and pasting the package names, and running additional
apt installcommands.But unless you know what specific usage you need before I probably wouldn’t bother.
Does it actually list the packages that are suggested?
Yes, But i think i got what you meant, i tried Manjaro before and when i installed GIMP or VLC(on GUI store), it offered to install Plugins and such(i could choose which to install) for me.
manjaro is arch-based, with different repositories than ubuntu or debian-based distributions. what it offers via the DE’s software ‘manager’ will likely be a bit different.
