Installing multiple package

BlolPloop

Hi, can I install simply multiple theme (or package) without selecting one after one or introducing each name? For example I'd like to do a search with theme as term and install all the package funded.

Staudey

Well, you could of course do it from the command line.

Note: I do not recommend this at all.

sudo eopkg it -c desktop.theme installs all packages from the desktop.theme component
(eopkg info -c desktop.theme to see them)

You could also do an eopkg sr <search-term> and then pipe that to eopkg it to install all packages found. But that also matches package descriptions, and random parts of the package name, so you'll probably fine-tune it for your purposes.

BlolPloop

Staudey Thanks for the answer. If I understand well there is now way to combine directly the result of eopkg sr with eopkg it, some think like this: eopkg it sr <search-term>. When you say "and the pipe" is manually copy/paste, right?
How can I use the "-" at the start of the search-term?

Staudey

No, by pipe I mean this: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/piping-in-unix-or-linux/

So you can do something like eopkg sr theme | cut -d" " -f1 | xargs eopkg it to first search for any package containing the string "theme" (both description and name mind you!), cut out anything but the name and then install them

BlolPloop How can I use the "-" at the start of the search-term?

I'm not sure I understand the question, but if you mean how you can search for the "-" character, something like eopkg sr "\-theme" works

Again, I do not recommend this.

edit: Hmm, trying this myself I'm running into some issues. The colour formatting of eopkg messes with things a bit, and the missing newline at the end also seems to lead to problems. New command, but still not final:

eopkg sr -N --name "\theme" | echo `cut -d" " -f1` | xargs sudo eopkg it
but this produces an error for some reason

(-N is for no-color output, --name for just searching in the "Name" part of the package, the echo around cut to smooth out some formatting issue)

But now it fails with

System error. Program terminated. (25, 'Inappropriate ioctl for device')

edit2: well, it seems to work if you just auto-confirm it

eopkg sr -N --name "\theme" | echo `cut -d" " -f1` | xargs sudo eopkg it -y

Again, I do not recommend this!

brent

Staudey Again, I do not recommend this!

agree that gang-piping packages seems to be dangerous.
feels safer witheopkg it packageone packagetwo packagethree all old school and stuff.

Staudey

brent What, no. The "install every package under the sun with -theme in its name" part is ill-advised, not the piping of stuff to eopkg. That's fine. (minus my auto-confirm -y switch in the last iteration, which loses one layer of control indeed)

brent

Staudey What, no. The "install every package with -theme in its name" part is ill advised, not the piping of stuff to eopkg.

thats what I meant while tripping all over the syntax🙂