On 01/20/2011 06:32 AM, Kaiting Chen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva<juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following
instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/
GNOME#Base<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/%0AGNOME#Base>'. As you
can see it reads:
"Install the base GNOME desktop"
# pacman -S gnome
And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An
option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this
group."
When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed
and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire
list of packages, that I would like to avoid.
I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not
found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while
installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success.
Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please?
You can just go ahead and do this, `pacman -Sg gnome | awk '{ print $2 }'>
tempfile`, then edit that tempfile and delete the packages that you don't
want, then do `pacman -S $(cat tempfile)`. --Kaiting.
Or:
pacman -Sgq gnome > tempfile
Choosing packages from a group interactively has also been
(re)implemented a couple of times in the past couple of months; nothing
has been merged into the pacman repo though (AFAIK).
