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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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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.

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I am unsure if you have found the answer, but here is what worked for me:

sudo apt-get install backbox-tools

I hope this helps.

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  • I wanted to expand a little and give a quick step by step sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo apt-get install vim sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following ##Backbock tools installed (enter date here) deb ppa.launchpad.net/backbox/four/ubuntu trusty main deb-src ppa.launchpad.net/backbox/four/ubuntu trusty main sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install backbox-tools This part will take a bit and you will have to acknowledge a thing or two
    – Funklebits
    Mar 22, 2015 at 2:41
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The work has been done for you. Use one of the following commands:

sudo apt-get install backbox-minimal
sudo apt-get install backbox-desktop
sudo apt-get install backbox-server

The backbox-desktop metapackage has all of the packages, while backbox-minimal will give you a functional command-line system.

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