newbie, installing unebootin packages help

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trying to install unebootin on ubuntu 18.04 after install get this: sorry- newbie question, but do I answer y or n and can I install without them or are they necessary? Thanks in advance,

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  extlinux p7zip p7zip-full unetbootin-translations
Suggested packages:
  p7zip-rar
Recommended packages:
  gksu | kdesudo
The following NEW packages will be installed
  extlinux p7zip p7zip-full unetbootin unetbootin-translations
0 to upgrade, 5 to newly install, 0 to remove and 18 not to upgrade.
Need to get 2,107 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

do I need these to install?

FYI Ubuntu 18.04 already includes Startup Disk Creator, which does the same job as unetbootin. It's right there in Desktop Search. — user535733, Jun 06 '20 at 16:49
Does this answer your question? What does -y mean in apt-get -y install command? — karel, Jun 07 '20 at 15:40

user3734670 · Answer 1 · 2020-06-07T14:47:01.563

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You must install these. Packages have often other packages as dependencies. This has the advantage that packages don't need to maintain their dependencies, e.g. if a used packages gets an update, the update is installed by the package manager and the package that uses the updated package gets the advantages of the update.

edited Jun 07 '20 at 14:47

answered Jun 06 '20 at 16:34

user3734670

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thank you for the quick reply – indigo12 Jun 06 '20 at 16:42
If you think this answers your question, be sure to tick the check mark next to it, to mark this question as "answered". – Jos Jun 06 '20 at 16:48

newbie, installing unebootin packages help

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