On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com
wrote:
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/%0AGNOME#Base>'. As you can see it reads:
"Install the base GNOME desktop"
# pacman -S gnome
And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this group."
When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire list of packages, that I would like to avoid.
I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success.
Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please?
You can just go ahead and do this, `pacman -Sg gnome | awk '{ print $2 }' > tempfile`, then edit that tempfile and delete the packages that you don't want, then do `pacman -S $(cat tempfile)`. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/