Re: ADD?REMOVE SOFTWARE
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-
Re: ADD?REMOVE SOFTWARE
On 6/12/23 20:44, 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 Hello Brad you can use aptitude (ncurse interface) or synaptic (graphical interface) if aptitude is not already installed on your computer, you can install it by `apt install aptitude` if synaptic is not already installed on your computer, you can install it by `apt install synaptic`
ADD?REMOVE SOFTWARE
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
