Re: Installing all packages

[Nunya <31210.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:23:53PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote:
>    But is there an easier way to do this? An unattended way to do it, 
> equivalent of setting the 'Everything' choice in Red Hat's install?

First, apt-get install aptitude.
Run aptitude.
Highlight "Not Installed Packages".  Hit the Plus key.
Hit "G".

Some things conflict with one another, so some things will
unselect themselves automatically.

I do this with a local partial mirror of (currently) 414 mb of debs.
It takes about 30 minutes to install that much debs.