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Will installing gedit also installs a GUI as a dependency in server?

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I want to use gedit using ssh for file editing on my server. I use nano, but for html and css gedit is better.

Now with sudo apt-get install gedit I get dependencies that are 120mb, that kind seems too big.

So did I just install also a complete user interface because of gedit? I don't need a user interface... What did it also install automatically? Should I've used some other command for installation?

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answered 2 Years ago imberst · Accepted Answer

You can find what a package depends on using apt-rdepends, install it with Software Center:

Or with terminal:

sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends

To check what packages depends gedit on (packages that were installed when you did sudo apt-get install gedit) type this after you installed apt-rdepends

sudo apt-rdepends gedit

That will return the list of packages that gedit installed or were already installed and are used by gedit for running.

If you want to use gedit there will be a lot of dependencies that you wont be able to avoid but are necessary for the program to run without faults.