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:
..............................
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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 hours ago

      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

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        2·
        26 minutes ago

        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.

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    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 install commands.

    But unless you know what specific usage you need before I probably wouldn’t bother.

    • Cactus_Head@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      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.

  • GaumBeist@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 hours ago

    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 an apt install command

    Edit: 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 manually apt-mark auto <list of packages>—although that might make them immediately susceptible to an autoremove, 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 your apt.conf (which just includes the --install-recommends option by default, behind the scenes)