Você pode fazer isso usando os recursos avançados de pesquisa de aptitude
. O seguinte irá instalar pacotes sugeridos por network-manager
:
aptitude install '~Rsuggests:^network-manager$'
Da documentação HTML do aptitude:
?reverse-depType(pattern), ~R[depType:]pattern
depType may be either “provides” or one of the dependency types given in the documentation of ?broken-depType. If depType is not present, it defaults to depends.
If depType is “provides”, matches packages whose name is provided by a package version matching pattern. Otherwise, matches packages which a package version matching pattern declares a dependency of type depType upon.