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I previously installed a package with the --no-install-recommends and am now missing some functionality due to these packages missing. Is there a way to install these packages with an apt-get command without completely uninstalling it (as this will remove a plethora of dependent packages as well)?

I know I can use apt-cache depends *packagename* | grep Recommends to get a list of these packages, which I can then manually install and manually set to autoinstalled. However I would like to know whether you can do this automatically with apt-get.

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With a little bit awk:

apt-cache depends YOUR_PACKAGE | \
    awk '/Recommends:/ {system("sudo apt-get install "$2"; sudo apt-mark auto "$2)}'
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    But this is not recursive, contrary to the automatic installation of recommended packages.
    – vinc17
    Commented Oct 26, 2017 at 11:47

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