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.
