[SOLVED] auto remove suggests and recommends

I would like to automatically remove all the suggests and recommends from an existing debian installation as well as prevent them from loading during aptitude updates.

For the second part of your question, add these to /etc/apt/apt.conf (you may have to create the file first)

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Install-Recommends "0";

Originally Posted by jim_p For the second part of your question, add these to /etc/apt/apt.conf (you may have to create the file first) $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Install-Recommends "0";

Thanks for the second part but I want to autoremove the existing recommends/suggests as well.

Originally Posted by utanja I would like to automatically remove all the suggests and recommends from an existing debian installation as well as prevent them from loading during aptitude updates.

Thank you Jim_P for that information but I am still looking for a method to automatically remove installed recommends and suggests.

The information you provided was very helpful in preventing recommends and suggests from installing but I have a load of them already installed which I would like to remove

utanja, what did your searches inside apt documentation reveal? where are you stuck? we will be willing to help you with that.

After some googling, I came up to this (the last post)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/24447...alled-packages

...and again somebody managed to get a complete handout instead of showing some effort.
but, yeah, whatever, good find jim_p!

Originally Posted by ondoho ...and again somebody managed to get a complete handout instead of showing some effort. but, yeah, whatever, good find jim_p!

Even though English is not my primary language,I will not lower myself to reply

you also didn't lower yourself to mark this thread [SOLVED]...

I mark this solved