How to make the Installer add packages after fresh installation

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 09:25:31 UTC 2008


Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I just freshly installed F8 (February respin) and during installation
> I added & subtracted the packages/package groups I wanted during the
> package choosing phase.  Unfortunately, some package conflict caused
> the installer to barf and exit prematurely.
> 
> So I tried to install but just installed the default system.
> (I.e., I took the default package choices.)
> 
> Now I'd like to go back and use the same interface to (again) choose
> the packages I want and "upgrade" the system.  However the installer
> just skips the "package choosing" phase when I choose "upgrade" on the
> existing system.
> 
> Is there a way to get the installer to do what I want?


Why don't you use the 'Install & Remove Software' option from the menu for 
this?


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   David




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