On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an easy way to install EVERYTHIG that comes > in the Debian Cd´s ????
It doesn't make any sense to install everything. Many package are contradictory. Many are simply redundant. Why would you install exim if you've already installed sendmail, for example. There's really no situation where you'd want to install both. If you look at the descriptions for a few package, you'll find that there are some that specifically conflict with other Debian package. The package management system simply won't let you install them together. But... It is possible to install a very large subset of packages. If you look at the package listings in dselect, you'll see that you've got several "priorities". This include "required", "standard", "optional" and "extra". Debian policy dictates that no packages from required, standard, important or optional conflict with each other. Packages that conflict with a package from these priorities must be moved to "extra". So, using dselect, you can select a line that represents a section heading (e.g. "Available Optional packages in section net"). If you hit the '+' key on that line, all package in that section will be marked for installation. So you could go to the category header marked "Available Optional packages" and hit '+'. This would install *ALL* the optional packages. Do the same thing for "Standard" and "Important". I don't see why you'd want to do that, though. How many window managers, editors, and pagers do you really need? Do you need emacs19 *and* emacs20? But hey, if you really want to... noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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