For whatever reason a good deal of Debian packagers like to tack on a whole slew of "optional" dependencies to the packages they create. By default apt-get installs all of these extra dependencies on your computer. If you are like me and don't want all the extra bloat it is as simple as running apt-get with on extra argument:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends foo
In the above example "foo" is the name of the package you wish to install. Doing this can save a good bit of space on your system. For example:
sudo apt-get install abiword
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sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends abiword
or
sudo apt-get install k3b
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sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends k3b
~Jeff Hoogland
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