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Running sudo apt-get install <PACKAGE> will install the package, its dependencies, and any other recommended packages.

However, there does not seem to be a way to install only the dependencies of a package and exclude the package itself.

How would one go about doing this?

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answered 1 Year ago variark · Accepted Answer

This will install all packages in the package's Depends and PreDepends field:

sudo apt-get install $(apt-cache depends <PACKAGE> | grep Depends | sed "s/.*ends: //" | tr '

' ' ')

Basically you ask for all dependencies, filter out the (Pre)Depends, and format that output for apt-get.

One problem are dependencies like

Depends: pulseaudio

  pulseaudio:i386

or virtual packages like

Depends: <java6-runtime-headless>

  default-jre-headless

  openjdk-6-jre-headless

So: use with care - it doesn't work in all cases!