Thursday, December 22, 2011

How to reduce package size in Ubuntu while installing

Generally we use sudo apt-get install PackageName for installation. But in this way, all the recommended dependencies will be installed thereby increasing the size of installation.

So, in order to download and install only required dependencies, use

sudo apt-get install - -no-install-recommends package name




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