On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 09:43, Tom Taylor wrote: > Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > > How does one install "all" of the packages? > > I'm not sure why you'd want to do this? There's a lot of packages that > you'd never use, and it would take a lot time/a lot of space to install. This is what I do with up2date from RH. I highlight the list of packages that I want and then select install. Or I can select all which is a desired option sometimes. I think it is a waste of time to pick each package individually. For example, I had to do the following to install xosd: yum install xosd yum install xosd-devel Why isn't yum install xosd* allowed? Don't get me wrong. I am not asking for a GUI like in up2date just good command line features to save time. > > > yum install * does not work. > > Must I download packages manually and install them one at a time? > > yum install <packagename> is the syntax, and it will resolve > dependencies and get those for you as well. > > If you're looking for a type of program, but you don't know the exact > name, you can try: > > yum search <string> > > And it will give you a list of packages back, relating to your string. > > -- > Tom Taylor > <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto@xxxxxxxx>
