Re: how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

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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).


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