hwo to install a goup with GUI

Adel ESSAFI adelessafi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 07:28:56 UTC 2009


Thnaks;
I will check and report
Regards


Adel




2009/2/17 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>

> 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
> >
> If you are using yumex, click on the folder icon - this gives you
> the group view instead of the package view. From their, you can go
> down the tree one level and install the standard group packages with
> one checkbox. You still have to open the group to get the optional
> packages, but I believe you have to do that with yum as well.
>
> Is this what you are after, or am I missing something?
>
> Mikkel
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