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by pizza234 1233 days ago
The `apt` tool provides the option `--no-install-recommends`.

If you want to disable the recommended packages installation by default, you can:

  echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99disable-recommends.conf
You may also want to disable the suggested packages:

  echo 'APT::Install-Suggests "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99disable-recommends.conf