Is it possible to install all packages from an APT repository?
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Published on 2010-06-11T02:28:26Z
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Is it possible to install all packages from an APT repository?
I know it is possible to do it manually, but then you would need to know all the package names, and I don't. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Update:
Well, you guys are going to kill me for this, but the reason for my madness is that I want to install all the packages from BackTrack into my Ubuntu installation. I really don't like the idea of having it in a VM and having a separate partition for it is even more out of the question. I know that the folks at BackTrack doesn't like it when people leech their repositories, but that's what you get for releasing open source software. Stupid? maybe.. A valid reason? probably not.. Do I still want it? Yes.
Another edit:
I have now given up on this as it seems impossible to get it to work even by manually installing packages.
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