Installing all packages

[Guillermo Garron]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:53 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
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>>Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>>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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>>It is only because i am tired of "guess" wich library i need to install 
>>each time i need to upgrade or install new software :)
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>There is no "guess" involved.
>If you use yum, it will explicitly locate and install any dependencies
>or will politely fail and tell you exactly which packages it cannot
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>If you use the rpm at command line it tells you in detail which files
>are needed and a little judicious use of rpm -ql will identify the
>package for you.
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>Knowing how to use the tools takes all guessing our of the process.
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>OTOH, if you are compiling from source, then it is up to you to identify
>the needed packages and thus, yes, some guesswork may be involved.
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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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>>thanks a lot i will look for that tool.
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>>regards,
>>Guillermo Garron
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thanks you all,
i am in last situation i am trying to mount a disk from another linux 
using SSH
the command is shfs but it is only available for compile option or at 
least i did not find the rpm version :(

i am "guessing" i did not work on programming since my university 
years.. (10 years ago!!)

greetings.
Guillermo.