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Old 15th August 2012
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If you're installing a lot of packages, possibly in part as a result of recursive installs of dependencies, you may not know what all packages have been installed ... as they fly by. You could figure it out "by hand" but that could be tedious. In this kind of situation I like to do the installation inside of a script(1) session. That makes it easy to go back and look at everything that happened, including any messages displayed.
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