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Old 05-27-2010
installing packages

hi Guys,

relatively new to Unix. i have a list of Unix packages to install... how do i install only what is on that list? can someone help?


Kind regards

Brian
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Old 05-27-2010
One way you could do it is to write a for loop. Assuming you have a list of package names in a file:

for pkg in `cat pkglist`; do
mypkgmanager [opts] $pkg
done

Alternatively, just specify the package names separated by spaces without back ticks instead of cat pkglist.
 
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