Can yum install everything?

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

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 at tomtaylor.co.uk>
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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>