How can I install a package without installing some dependencies?

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Published on 2011-11-01T20:15:24Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 18:14 UTC
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I'm trying to install the package LaTeXila, and the output looks like this:

$ sudo apt-get install latexila --no-install-recommends
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  latexila-data latexmk luatex tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries
  texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base
Suggested packages:
  rubber texlive-latex-extra debhelper
Recommended packages:
  texlive texlive-latex-recommended texlive-luatex lmodern
  texlive-latex-base-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  latexila latexila-data latexmk luatex tex-common texlive-base
  texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 74.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I don't want to install the texlive packages. I've installed texlive manually from http://www.tug.org/texlive/. Any suggestions?

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