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which means that you will get all sorts of unnecessary  extra packages when installing software  
which means that you will get all sorts of unnecessary  extra packages when installing software  


Check the settins with apt-config dump
Check the settings with apt-config dump


To circumvent this, put this in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
To circumvent this, put this in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

Revision as of 12:05, 15 February 2011

In debian install-recommends defaults to "true", which means that you will get all sorts of unnecessary extra packages when installing software

Check the settings with apt-config dump

To circumvent this, put this in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

APT::Install-Recommends "false";

Debian 6 & postgresql

In debian 6.0 psql is linked to the lesser developed libedit instead of libreadline, see this or this

It can be bypassed by launching psql like this:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libreadline.so.6 psql