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If I did, how do you tell what package includes the library?
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Hmmm. I am still getting used to the package manager names in Slackware. I thought you had written another package manager... Anyway, the results are the same your way, except that the "-F" switch seems to override and brings in results for "gtk" from all active repositories, where as mine only brings n "msb" results.
Last edited by globetrotterdk; 02-09-2016 at 05:13 PM.
just install all packages in deps, base, and extra from the repository
that should ease your job
Any idea what command to use in slpkg to do that?
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I imagine that I again could use # slpkg -l msb | grep <something> to find the packages, but that still doesn't get me where I want to go if I need to manually install each package separately.
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OK, so how does one normally bulk install all packages in specific categories?
Last edited by globetrotterdk; 02-10-2016 at 08:14 AM.
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