Can yum install everything?

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 10:23, Nicolas Bertrand wrote:
> yum install "*"  
> or 
> yum install "xsod*" 
>        to avoid interpretation of the glob (*) by the shell.
Awesome! That is what I needed.  Thanks a bunch.

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> Nic
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> >>> ernesto at ornl.gov 01/25/04 3:04 PM >>>
> 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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