About package managers and depends & suggests

[JimmyBob]

Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Using Feisty Fawn Kubuntu.
> 
> I use the following package managers:
>    apt-get		to install packages
>    aptitude -vv show	to check about an uninstalled package
>    synaptic		when I want a gui - infrequent
>    adept			don't use it because of unreliability.
> 
> Which of the above automatically installs depends and suggests?
> Which do not or require some command line options?
> 
> I've read the man pages but do not clearly understand how depends and 
> suggests are handled.
> 
> Normally I just 'apt-get install' but gnumeric seems a lot more 
> complicated than most and I'm nervous about hurting my nicely 
> functioning system.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
> Using Thunderbird on Linux
> 

Hey Larry,

aptitude has a --with-recommends option so try
	aptitude --with-recommends install <packagename>

That should do it for you. (the switch is also -r BTW)