Is it possible in apt/apt-get to install a package and only some of its recommendations?  For example: I want to install kde-plasma-desktop which recommends sddm, but I don't want to install sddm. What I do want is to install the rest of the recommended packages.  Is there any way of doing this with apt?
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I want to install xfce4-goodies but I don't want Midori Browser. With --no-install-recommends I don't know how to specify only Midori. I want the rest of packages. How to do that? Thanks!
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I have all images of Debian, Ubuntu and Ubuntustudio as .iso. How can I use them as repository to install my desired packages with sudo apt-get install package-name?  I easily mount the .iso file with Archive Mounter, but when adding CD-ROM in Software Sources it says Please Insert CD-ROM.   How should I do this without burning them to disk?
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Let's say there are A, B and C package.  A and C were installed manually with apt-get install, and B is a dependency of A and was installed by apt automatically.  Is it possible to know that with some apt-* or dpkg command?
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When installing a software via dpkg -i packageA.deb, will the dependencies required by packageA be downloaded and installed automatically? How is this different from using apt-get or aptitude?
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I am completely new to linux and hence Ubuntu. Though i have been using the Ubuntu OS on my system for a while, it is for the first time I am trying to learn the nuances and hence starting with the documentation.  I am wondering , if we use apt-get command to install packages, what does apt-get install aptitude do ?
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Just for curiosity, sometimes while installing software throught apt-get install software_name the terminal prompt me for a confirmation "type Yes or No", but not allways.  I dont mean the sudo password prompt, but the message "Will be downloaded and configrated XXX Kb, continue?" (or something similar)  Why?
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When I have installed a package using apt, is there a way to find out by which command(s) I can run the installed program(s)?  For instance, the package httpcode is not available as httpcode, and the package description (apt show httpcode) does not explain how to run it. How could I have found out that it’s run via hc from the command line?  There are two slightly hacky workarounds I found:    Assuming that programs are by default installed in usr/bin, I ran ls -ltc | head -n 10 to find recenlty touched files there, and indeed I found hc. Similarly to 1, dpkg -L httpcode returns a list of files created by installing the package, which also lists /usr/bin/hc.   Is there a better solution to this problem that doesn’t hinge upon the intuition of where the program might be stored on disk?  I also found that man httpcode does open the man page of the program, even though I called it with the package name as argument. Does this always work (if the program provides a manpage)?
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So when I run Raspbian (basically a ARM Debian derivative with LXDE), I can install any normal package using aptitude. But if, for example, I wanted to download a .deb file, I would have to choose 32-bit or 64-bit and download that, and try to run it on Raspbian (it wouldn't work).   Why does installing packages from the official repositories work on ARM systems? Why is it not incompatible?  I'm also a little confused about the difference between hardware and software bits. ARM is hardware, right?
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How to install  on Ubuntu?   Is there a way to use apt-get install?   I only have command line access to my server. How do I install Anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04 from the command line?
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It is not about the common download &amp; install thing, what apt (aptitude, etc) does, it is a scripted download a package file.  I found the dget tool for this task, which works quite well. But, unfortunately, it doesn't have any option to specify a different repository URL as it is given in the /etc/apt/sources.list.  Is it somehow possible? Actually, a dget-like functionality would be the best, but where I can also specify the repo URL.    P.s. thank you very much the scripts, but I would like to prefer a debian tool for this very simple task. It will be part of a buildscript, for external usage, and any unneeded complexity has intolerable collateral costs. It must be done by a debian tool.  P.s.2. Finally I solved this with updating the system-wide repos, and downloading the packages with dget. Thank you very much the scripts!
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I installed 12.04 in a separate partition. Right now, I would like to install the software that I have installed on my 10.04 in my 12.04 too. I was hoping there would be a workaround for this using aptonCD. But I figured out 'restoring' using apt on cd only copies the .debs into the cache file and that might mess things up for me considerably.  The rough idea that I have is :   Run an 'apt' command on 10.04 that will give me all the package names that I have currently installed on my 10.04. Bring those names to 12.04 and tell apt to fetch the same softwares, but the versions of them that belong to 12.04. Install them.   Is there anyway to do the above steps or is there a totally different way in which I can achieve this?
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I have seen and used all of these commands to upgrade packages on my system, but why are there different commands for this? Do they all not do the same thing? And if not, then in which situations would it be better to use a specific one of them?  These are the commands I mean:   sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt full-upgrade   I have already looked at this, but it does not answer my question about the command sudo apt full-upgrade:
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I normally use Software Updater to keep the system updated. However I occasionally will run apt-get upgrade from the terminal and I've notice there are times when Software Updater says there are no available updates but apt-get update shows some updates to packages.  I haven't been able to figure out why.
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Occasionally I install applications manually, rather than using apt or another package manager.   What location (/usr/, /usr/local/, /opt/, /home/, etc.) is suggested by "best practices" for the installation of user applications?
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Alright, so due to problems connecting to a wifi network on the ubuntu server distribution, i want to install the neccesary packages for a lamp, mail and ssh server on an ubuntu desktop 14.04 lte distribution(i am able to connect to the internet with the desktop version).  what should i install from the command line?  Thanks in advance!
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what is the usage of apt-get -f install . when I run sudo apt-get update I got some errors at the end It says try apt-get -f install. What is this command?  the last part of my error is :   . . .   going to be installed   E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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When I add a PPA and I want to install some of its content, it is quite annoying to re-update all my apt list using apt-get update.  Is it instead possible to only sync the content of a given repository?