On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote: > I've got a minimal install of fedora. > > How can I upgrade it to gnome desktop configuration via apt-get? > Is there any single (meta-)package that I could install, like: > > # apt-get install Gnome-Desktop > > which would bring up all dependencies. AFAIK RPMs on Debian have similar > functionality. There aren't task- like packages on Fedora but you can achieve a similar functionality with this Lua-script: http://laiskiainen.org/apt/lua/groupinstall/ Drop the .lua and .py files to /usr/lib/apt/scripts/ and the .conf to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d and then you can do things like # apt-get install group-gnome-desktop The trick here is that it reads the contents of /usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml and feeds that to apt. The part after group- must be a valid group id from comps.xml, sorry but no easy way to list those is currently available with apt. Yum has this functionality builtin so no additional scripts required. - Panu -
