[PLUG] Using YUM to install RPMs from a text file list

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 09:29:49 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Matt McKenzie <lnxknight at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I have Fedora 11 running in a VirtualBox VM.
> I had it setup earlier, but somehow screwed it up and decided to just wipe
> it and start over (its only a VM anyway).
> Before I did, I created a list of installed RPMs (after installing many
> from
> regular repos and RPMFusion), so I wouldn't have to go through manually and
> reinstall them.
>
> So I have a file generated by
> $ rpm -qa > rpmlist.txt
>
> So far I can't seem to find a way to have yum fetch and install the RPMs
> listed in a text file.
>
> My google fu so far hasn't come up with anything, but perhaps there is some
> better way of wording it...
> hopefully someone else has run into something like this.  Funny how I
> haven't yet, though I have used Fedora since FC1, and RedHat 5-9 before
> that
> (as in the old RedHat Linux, not RHEL)
>
> In a nutshell I want to do something like this:
>
> $ sudo yum install < rpmlist.txt
>
> But that doesn't work, since yum isn't setup to directly take pipes or
> redirects from command line.
>
> Also note the package list has full RPM names, including version, so the
> list may need to be trimmed or something to just the package names only.
> (Ex... foo-bar-1.2.3-fc11.i586.rpm, and yum probably wants just foo-bar
> only)
>
> Any help, hints, nudges where to look, etc...
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> Matt M.
> LinuxKnight
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I haven't tried this yet Matt as I just installed Fedora last night but you
might try this.

cat rpmlist.txt |xargs

then copy the list and export it to a variable like RPMLIST

for i in $RPMLIST; do yum install $i; done

HTH,
Drew-



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