yum install from list

[Aaron Bliss]

Chaim,
Try this. 
exec < install.list
while read line
do
yum -y install $line
done

Aaron

Chaim Rieger wrote:
> have a list of packages that i would like to install via yum
> tried this way
> for i in `cat install.list | cut -d "-" -f 1` ; do yum -y install $1 ; 
> done
> didnt work
>
> anybody know how i can point yum to install all packeges listed in the 
> file install.list ?
>
>
> thanx
>
>

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Aaron Bliss
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