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Installing All Packages in a PPA

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5066 / 1 Year ago, tue, april 18, 2023, 6:27:28

How do I download all of the packages contained within a particular PPA in one command, without explicitly listing out each package?

For example, say I want to download all 108 or so packages contained within the Backbox PPA without having to type out each package like this:

sudo apt-get install package1, package2, package3, package4, package5

How would I go about doing this?

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answered 1 Year ago oleard · Accepted Answer

In general, you don't. If the owner of the PPA has made a meta-package, which depends on all the other packages in the PPA, then you would be able to install that package and it will pull in everything else.

In the case of the Backbox PPA you mentioned, this has been done via the backbox-meta source package, which provides the backbox-minimal, backbox-desktop, and backbox-server meta packages, which depend on different sets of packages in that archive. Assuming it is updated, and all three packages depend on everything else in the PPA, you can run sudo apt-get install backbox-minimal backbox-desktop backbox-server to install everything.