> Date: Sunday, March 06, 2016 21:32:15 -0600 > From: g <geleem at bellsouth.net> > > On 03/06/16 19:19, Richard wrote: >>> Date: Sunday, March 06, 2016 17:12:24 -0600 >>> From: g <geleem at bellsouth.net> >>> On 03/06/16 14:48, Richard wrote: >>> <<>> >>>> You may want to look at the yum "shell" option (man yum-shell). >>>> >>> interesting. >>> >>> would you presume that something like this might run? >>> >>> yum-shell install < pkg-list.file >>> >> Read the man page. What you are suggesting is not how it works. >> > -- > > i read the 'man yum-shell' and that is what brought me to the > question. > > have you tried "yum-shell install < pkg-list.file" and know for a > fact that such will not work? "shell" is a yum command, invoked as shown below. I don't believe there is any program called "yum-shell" (even though that is the man page reference). shell Is used to enter the 'yum shell', when a filename is specified the contents of that file is executed in yum shell mode. See yum-shell(8) for more info. SYNOPSIS yum shell [filename] The contents of the file need to be standard yum-acceptable lines. I.e., the lines of a package list would need to be edited to include "install " and/or input continuation characters, etc.