aptitude: list all previous recommended packages

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Published on 2011-12-12T11:47:14Z Indexed on 2013/11/03 15:57 UTC
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sometimes when installing a package, aptitude recommends several other packages.

Is there a way to show all previous recommended packages of all installed packages?

Thanks in advance.

Casper

Edit:

Thanks for the replys so far. I already tried:

aptitude show ~i | grep '^Recommends' | cut -d ' ' -f 2-

Thats mostly ok. But it gives also things back like:

 console-setup | console-data (>= 2002.12.04dbs-1)

I want an easy way, to install all missing recommended packages.

So

 aptitude install console-setup | console-data (>= 2002.12.04dbs-1)

won't work ;-)

Is there a way, without manual checking all entries, to do this?

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