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| author | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@animus.robocracy.org> | 2009-09-25 14:26:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@animus.robocracy.org> | 2009-09-25 14:26:45 -0700 |
| commit | 47d90d23a26d136d64b3f71ac3e91303f613ae7a (patch) | |
| tree | f0fa15da962021d01a9acafd61edee3272c89172 /software/freebsd-packages | |
| parent | 5678b84dabce459e0347bac13f1f3df12ff47ce4 (diff) | |
| download | knowledge-47d90d23a26d136d64b3f71ac3e91303f613ae7a.tar.gz knowledge-47d90d23a26d136d64b3f71ac3e91303f613ae7a.zip | |
bulk package pkg_add-ing plus syntax fixes
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diff --git a/software/freebsd-packages b/software/freebsd-packages index e61ce02..c58bea4 100644 --- a/software/freebsd-packages +++ b/software/freebsd-packages @@ -49,4 +49,15 @@ The following are large and/or "optional":: The following are added by download:: java ("Diablo Latte" jdk from FreeBSD Foundation) - + +Bulk Installation +----------------- + +``pkg_add`` will fail with a ``getcwd`` error if you try to install many +packages with the same command. Instead, once you have ``bash`` installed, +you want to do something like:: + + $ for i in `echo vim screen python blah blah blah`; do pkg_add -r $i; done + +Note that with many packages it's almost impossible to avoid installing X +windows; I think there's a flag for this somewhere. |