Installing all packages

Guillermo Garron ggarron at alketech.com
Fri Nov 4 22:53:14 UTC 2005


Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:34 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I should have installed all packages when i installed my FC4 the first 
>>time.. unfortunatly i did not.
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>Out of curiosity - why?
>I've found that full installs are a PITA - even with broadband, the
>number of updates and time it takes to install them all is huge - and a
>waste of time/bandwidth for apps you do not use.
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It is only because i am tired of "guess" wich library i need to install 
each time i need to upgrade or install new software :)

>>now i upgraded my rpm software so i can not use my add/remove programs 
>>anymore.
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>>is there an option with command lines to install "all" now?
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>You can install yumex from Fedora Extras - and choose to install as many
>packages as you want through yumex.
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thanks a lot i will look for that tool.

regards,
Guillermo Garron




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