The option --install-recommends is not recognized by APT

Question

I'm trying to install Wine on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), but it gives me this error:

\E: Command line option --install-recommends is not understood in combination with the other options

What can I do to make this work?

The code is:

sudo apt-get --install-recommends winehq-devel

Answer 1

I think, you forgot the 'install' parameter.

What you wrote:

sudo apt-get --install-recommends winehq-devel

What you should've written (per APT's syntax):

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Though I think APT still defaults to your wanted behavior.

So omitting the --install-recommends would've been fine:

sudo apt-get install winehq-devel