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NAME

       install_packages - install FAI configured packages

SYNOPSIS

       install_packages

DESCRIPTION

       Fully  Automatic  Installation  (FAI)  is  used  to  provide unattended
       installation of Debian GNU/Linux operating systems with a very flexible
       class-based  system.  install_packages is a Perl script written for FAI
       to selectively install, hold, remove, or purge packages or tasks.

       install_packages is called from the fai installation script and  should
       not  be  called  directly.  Its function is to parse the package_config
       files based on the class definitions of the client.   For  example,  if
       the  client  belonged  to  the SMTPSERVER class, install_packages would
       parse ../package_config/SMTPSERVER for instructions on what packages to
       install, hold, remove, or purge.

OPTIONS

       -d     Only  download  packages  instead  of  installing them. Variable
              $aptoptions must be set.

       -h     Show help, version and summary of options.

       -H     Show  list  of  all  available  commands   for   the   file   in
              package_config.

       -l     Print  only  the  list  of all packages that would be installed,
              then exit.

       -L     Print the list of all packages with version number that would be
              installed, then exit.

       -m MAX Install  only  MAX packages at a time. Same as setting the shell
              environment variable MAXPACKAGES.

       -n     Dry run. Do not execute installation commands, just print  them.

       -N     Do not check package names whether they are valid.

       -p DIRECTORY
              Read   the   configuration   files  from  DIRECTORY  instead  of
              $FAI/packages_config.

       -s     Download source of binary packages that are installed. Currently
              supported only for apt-get/aptitude based installations.

       -v     Be verbose.

NOTES

       install_packages  expects  to find the FAI_ROOT directory, the location
       of  class  definitions,  package  configurations,  and  custom  install
       scripts, somewhere in the filesystem.  This location is configurable in
       /etc/fai/fai.conf and defaults to /srv/fai/config.

SEE ALSO

       apt(1), aptitude(8), apt-get(8), dpkg(8), tasksel(1)

       This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). See the FAI
       manual  for  more  information  on how to use install_packages. The FAI
       homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai.

FILES

       /etc/fai/fai.conf
              The FAI configuration file.

       /srv/fai/config/package_config/
              The FAI package configuration directory.

AUTHOR

       Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>