`--no-install-recommends` only specified packages
I want to install xfce4-goodies but I don't want Midori Browser. With --no-install-recommends I don't know how to specify only Midori. I want the rest of packages. How to do that? Thanks!
In this case, as Thomas has answered, midori is not one of the packages recommended by xfce4-goodies, so nothing special needs to be done.
However, in the general case, you can block specific recommended or suggested packages using a hyphen after their name:
apt install xfce4-goodies xfce4-power-manager-
The - forces apt to consider the package for removal, so it won't be installed. Of course, this won't work for hard dependencies, only recommended/suggested packages, and for packages that are one of many candidates providing a hard dependency.
Correspondingly, when removing a package and its dependencies, you can keep a dependency by using a plus after it:
apt-get autoremove xfce4-goodies xfce4-artwork+
Any of the installation and removal subcommands of apt and apt-get can be used for both installation and removal thus.
I think this is a confusion between the upstream XCFE.org pages which indicate Midori is one of the xfce4 goodies, and what is actually installed.
The actual dependencies of the xfce4-goodies package that it installs don't even reference Midori anywhere. From apt-get install --dry-run xfce4-goodies on a standard Ubuntu 16.04 box:
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libqmi-glib1 linux-headers-4.4.0-109 linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-109-generic
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
exo-utils hddtemp libexo-1-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libgarcon-1-0
libgarcon-common libtagc0 libthunarx-2-0 libtumbler-1-0 libunique-1.0-0
libvte-common libvte9 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxfce4ui-1-0
libxfce4ui-common libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common libxfce4util7
libxfconf-0-2 lm-sensors mousepad ristretto thunar thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-data thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman tumbler tumbler-common
xfburn xfce4-artwork xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman xfce4-clipman-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-dict
xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-notes
xfce4-notes-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager-data xfce4-power-manager-plugins xfce4-screenshooter
xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-terminal xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin
xfce4-wavelan-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin xfconf
Suggested packages:
ksensors devhelp fancontrol sensord read-edid i2c-tools
tumbler-plugins-extra xfce4-cellmodem-plugin xfce4-linelight-plugin
xfce4-messenger-plugin xfce4-mpc-plugin xfce4-radio-plugin xfswitch-plugin
xfce4-hdaps gigolo parole xsensors
The following NEW packages will be installed:
exo-utils hddtemp libexo-1-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libgarcon-1-0
libgarcon-common libtagc0 libthunarx-2-0 libtumbler-1-0 libunique-1.0-0
libvte-common libvte9 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxfce4ui-1-0
libxfce4ui-common libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common libxfce4util7
libxfconf-0-2 lm-sensors mousepad ristretto thunar thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-data thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman tumbler tumbler-common
xfburn xfce4-artwork xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman xfce4-clipman-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-dict
xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin xfce4-goodies
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-notes
xfce4-notes-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager-data xfce4-power-manager-plugins xfce4-screenshooter
xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-terminal xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin
xfce4-wavelan-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin xfconf
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Nowhere in this is Midori referenced.
Now, if you tried to install the full XFCE packagesets and not just the goodies package, Midori might be included. (however it is not part of the standard packagesets anywhere, not even in the Xubuntu packagesets by default, unless it's pulled in as its own dependency)