Obviously, even with automatic dependency installation, this is still a lot less work than installing the packages manually. In the following screen capture, you can see all the packages it installed. When it’s finished, as usual, it will return a command prompt. Do some shoulder rolls and neck rolls while this takes place. It has to download and install 34 packages which takes about a minute, depending on your connection speed and your computer’s speed. Also, notice that the two words are capitalized.) Stand up and stretch while this installation takes place. (Notice the use of quotation marks around the package name since it consists of two words. Use yum groups to install the Web Server group with the following command: Now, add a grep filter to look for groups related to “Web” by using the command yum grouplist | grep Web (Remember, everything in Linux is case-sensitive.) Use the command yum grouplist to see a list of all the available package groups.
In the following steps, you will learn how to list available groups, install a group, and remove a group. Older versions may require that you install yum-utils in order to use yum groups.Ī free companion video for this guide is available at. The following tutorial is based on CentOS 6.5 and should work with other versions of Red Hat-based distros.
For example, the yum group “Web Server” not only installs httpd, it also installs crypto-utils, httpd-manual, mod_perl, mod_ssl, mod_wsgi, and webalizer, plus all their dependencies. By using yum groups, it’s not necessary for you to manually install related packages individually. In addition to installing individual packages, yum can also install and manage groups of packages through its groupinstall feature, a part of yum groups. Few, however, are aware of the power, benefits, and utility of yum groups. Most Linux admins are aware of the yum (Yellow Dog Updater Modified) utility for package management in Red Hat-based distros such as RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora.
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