On 03/06/16 22:15, Richard wrote: <<>>> "shell" is a yum command, invoked as shown below. I don't believe > there is any program called "yum-shell" (even though that is the man > page reference). > > shell Is used to enter the 'yum shell', when a filename is > specified the contents of that file is executed in > yum shell mode. See yum-shell(8) for more info. > > SYNOPSIS > yum shell [filename] > > The contents of the file need to be standard yum-acceptable lines. > I.e., the lines of a package list would need to be edited to include > "install " and/or input continuation characters, etc. >-- ok. so how about; yum shell install < pkginstalllist.file -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .
John R Pierce
2016-Mar-07 07:54 UTC
[CentOS] 6.7 netinstall fails at insert cd to continue
On 3/6/2016 8:25 PM, g wrote:> ok. so how about; > > yum shell install < pkginstalllist.fileyum install $(cat pkginstallist.file) or yum install `cat pkginstallist.file` should work unless that list is stupid long. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 03/07/16 01:54, John R Pierce wrote:> On 3/6/2016 8:25 PM, g wrote: >> ok. so how about; >> >> yum shell install < pkginstalllist.file > > > yum install $(cat pkginstallist.file) > or > yum install `cat pkginstallist.file` > > should work unless that list is stupid long. >-- all i can say is "yum install $(cat pkginstallist.file)" worked 'slicker than owl poop'. :-D my bad in that i did not think to redirect output to catch packages that where not available. there where maybe 12 such, so it was not a problem to 'drag and drop' names while yum output scrolled. now all i have to do is figure out what packages are for and where i loaded them from, which a web search on names should answer. primarily, what is missing are cad, eda and spice progs. thank you for reply. i most gratefully appreciate your help. and i thank and appreciate others who replied. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .