William M. Quarles wrote:
> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I want to ask how to do to install a group of package graphically. the
>> add/remove software allows only to parse the groups and then you have
>> to select the needed packages. There is even "select all" option.
>
> Just to clarify, I think you meant "Is there even a 'select all' option?"
>
> Folks, it seems to me that he is referring to "gpk-application" or
> whatever the equivalent is for KDE, which of course uses Yum as its
> backend.
>
> Yes, I would like to know how to do this, too. You should be able to do
> it from the command line using yum, but I don't see any way to do it
> using any GUI utilities except when running Anaconda on the installation
> discs. I would suggest submitting a Bugzilla report if somebody hasn't
> already as a future feature request.
>
> As for now, it looks like we are stuck with using yum at the command
> line in order to mass-install or mass-uninstall groups of packages. I've
> only seen that I can install and uninstall entire groups using "yum
> groupinstall <group>" and "yum groupremove <group>" respectively, but
> these only install and remove the groups as they come on the
> installation discs (use "yum grouplist" to list groups of packages).
> They do not take into account the extra packages available from the
> Fedora repositories, nor any other repositories added to the yum
> configuration. Does anybody out there know how to add an entire group of
> packages, no matter where they come from, using yum at the commandline?
>
> Thanks,
> William
>