CentOS - Jul 2005 - CentOS 4 post installation of all packages

Hello.

I have installed CentOS 4 on a server in a hosting company and I realise 
that not all packages have been installed.
I would like to install all packages exactly like it is when we click on 
'install everything' from the CentOS 4 installation.
Is there a way of doing so with 'yum install' something ? My goal is to
have
the exact replicate as the default CentOS 4 'install everything' option.
I am in fear that there would be other packages installed than only the ones 
from the default CentOS install by typing 'yum install *' if this is 
possible.

Thanks,
Daniel

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dan1 wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have installed CentOS 4 on a server in a hosting company and I 
> realise that not all packages have been installed.
> I would like to install all packages exactly like it is when we click 
> on 'install everything' from the CentOS 4 installation.
> Is there a way of doing so with 'yum install' something ? My goal
is
> to have the exact replicate as the default CentOS 4 'install 
> everything' option.
> I am in fear that there would be other packages installed than only 
> the ones from the default CentOS install by typing 'yum install *'
if
> this is possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

If the server has the DVD in the drive could you not simply do:-

  rpm -Uvh *.rpm

from the RPMS directory on the DVD.  Afterwards just run 'yum update' to
apply in recent package updates.

Apologies if I'm not understanding your situation correctly.

Regards

Lee

dan1 wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have installed CentOS 4 on a server in a hosting company and I realise
> that not all packages have been installed.
> I would like to install all packages exactly like it is when we click on
> 'install everything' from the CentOS 4 installation.
> Is there a way of doing so with 'yum install' something ? My goal
is to
> have the exact replicate as the default CentOS 4 'install
everything'
> option.
> I am in fear that there would be other packages installed than only the
> ones from the default CentOS install by typing 'yum install *' if
this
> is possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
I personnaly wonder why one would want to have all packages installed on
a remote server.  You really need all the X applications?

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dan1 wrote:
> I have installed CentOS 4 on a server in a hosting company and I realise
> that not all packages have been installed.
as has already been pointed out - you dont really need all the packages
from the distro. Just install what you need.
> I am in fear that there would be other packages installed than only the
> ones from the default CentOS install by typing 'yum install *' if
this
> is possible.
> 
If you have not added any more external repositories, no external
packages will be installed.

Try something like this 'yum install *.noarch *.i386 *.i686'  - that
will bring in everything from the CentOS repository.

- K

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