Brad McDonald wrote: > IS there any way to make multiple selections of a file,it's dependencies > and dependant packages rather than one by one as that is very slow.For > example 3 nights ago I installed all the "electrical" by first the named > folder then the dependencies then the dependant packages.The following 2 > nights I had as much to put in again.I would like to select everything at > once with their dependencies
Assuming you're using Debian and haven't done anything odd, sudo apt install PACKAGE will install PACKAGE and all the dependencies. If you put a list of PACKAGE-A PACKAGE-B PACKAGE-C on the same command line, all of those packages and all dependencies will be installed. -dsr-