Installing all packages

Guillermo Garron ggarron at alketech.com
Fri Nov 4 23:01:13 UTC 2005


Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:34 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I should have installed all packages when i installed my FC4 the first 
>>time.. unfortunatly i did not.
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>Out of curiosity - why?
>I've found that full installs are a PITA - even with broadband, the
>number of updates and time it takes to install them all is huge - and a
>waste of time/bandwidth for apps you do not use.
>
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>>now i upgraded my rpm software so i can not use my add/remove programs 
>>anymore.
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>>is there an option with command lines to install "all" now?
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>You can install yumex from Fedora Extras - and choose to install as many
>packages as you want through yumex.
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I got this after installing yumex
# yumex --help
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 23, in ?
    import gtk
  File 
"/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", 
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display
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is that correct?
greetings,
Guillermo.




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