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-

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