Re: debian installing packages suggestion

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> By way of example, installing the ghc compiler:
> sudo apt install ghc|tee ghc.sug
> answer no to install packages.
> You get ghc.sug on your drive and can then look over the suggested packages to install.
> If a problem happens later since you declined to install one of the suggested packages when you actually do install ghc, you at least have a list you can use to get the necessary packages to install on your drive.

You can always run:

apt show ghc

or

apt-cache show ghc

which will list the suggested packages along with the other package 
information.

If the package is installed, you can also run:

dpkg -s ghc

HTH,
Geoff.