#800039 kget depends on vlc

Package:
kget
Source:
kget
Description:
download manager
Submitter:
"Loyall, David"
Date:
2015-09-26 10:18:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#800039#5
Date:
2015-09-25 19:08:49 UTC
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    $ sudo apt-get install kget

The command above fails because I respond 'no' when prompted to install 310 megs of packages including Kate and VLC.

Cheers,
--Dave

#800039#10
Date:
2015-09-26 10:14:57 UTC
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kget depends on kde-runtime, which in turn uses phonon to offer an unified
sound interface to the kde applications.
The default backend for phonon is phonon-backend-vlc, which depends on vlc (it
could depend on vlc-nox), but that's not the only backend available, you can
use phonon-backend-gstreamer to use gstreamer or phonon-backend-null if you
want no sound.

To do that you could do:

 apt install kget phonon-backend-vlc- phonon-backend-gstreamer

This tries to download 193 MB of packages in a clean system

 apt install kget phonon-backend-vlc- phonon-backend-null

This tries to download 183 MB of packages in a clean system

And it can be reduced about 40 MB if you don't install the recommended packages.

Happy hacking,