Hi,

I did a search for kickstart and all packages in this forum and couldn't find anything. Google has pretty much been unhelpful and only provides "--clear-part all" instead of all packages.

Is there a way to specify all packages in the %packages section of ks.cfg (kickstart)? I know in RHEL 4 (@Everything) and RHEL 5 and up (*/*.i686) can be used to specify all packages?

I am trying to build an Ubuntu kickstart framework to auto install multi-architecture machines. Right now I am trying to list packages since I could not get the above to work. But I keep running into missing libraries and dependencies when I try to install some tools.

I am trying on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04

My %pacakges section

packages
@ Base
@ ubuntu-desktop
@ ubuntu-server
@ legacy-software-development
@ system-tools
@ development-tools
@ text-internet
@ legacy-network-server
@ network-server
@ kernel-development
@ compat-arch-support
openssh-server
vim
autofs
build-essential
fakeroot
lsb-core
lsb-cxx
ntp

Thanks in advance for any advice and looking.

Why do you want install all packages?
This makes no sense, since Ubuntu is based on Debian and the packages base consits of 30 000 packages.

do you really have the tens of terabits of drive space to install EVERYTHING

you will NEVER even use 99 of it even one time

Thanks for the replys.

Installing everything alleviates most of the "missing dependency" we run into with our software application. That is why we install Everything for RHEL and SUSE SLES. But RHEL Workstation 6 has a little less than 4000 packages vs 30,000 in Ubuntu/Debian. O.o

What is the package count associated with Ubuntu Server? Perhaps, I can install those and should relieve most of the "missing dependency" issues.

Default is the Base and I built the packages list in my original post after running into missing packages, libraries, dependencies.

Recently, I had to include "ia32-libs" for dependencies still depended on 32-bit libraries.

I am hoping that @Everything that is similiar to RedHat can take care of this.

Thanks again for the inputs. I appreciate it.