CentOS - Apr 2008 - How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

Hi All,

Short description of the problem:
- I would like to install the complete 'xfce' desktop on CentOS5.x

I've tried:
yum groupinstall xfce
yum groupinstall xfce4
yum groupinstall xfce*
yum groupinstall xfce4*
yum groupinstall xfce4.2
yum groupinstall xfce4.1
yum groupinstall xfce4.3
yum groupinstall xfce4.4
yum groupinstall xfce4.4.2
....
etc
etc
...
nothing worked

then I've started googling the net and .... ____finally____  I found
the magic combination. One very merciful soul posted the golden combination.

yum groupinstall "XFCE-4.4"

This did the trick.   God bless him/her and all his relatives. He/She
deserved it.

question:
Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as
a 'group' using yum ?

TIA

Igor




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Primorec wrote:
> Is there a way to check which packages are available for the 
> installation as a 'group' using yum ?
    yum grouplist

also, see...

    yum groupinfo "some group name"

question:
Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as
a 'group' using yum ?

TIA

Igor



 

 

igor

 

try

 

yum grouplist

 

yum groupinfo "whatever group name"

 

for full info maybe try

 

man yum

 

or

 

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

 

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM

 

www.google.com <http://www.google.com/>  searches

 

etc etc

 

 - rh

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Primorec a ?crit :
> 
> question:
> Is there a way to check which packages are available for the 
> installation as a 'group' using yum ?
> 
# yum grouplist

;o)

> then I've started googling the net and .... ____finally____  I found 
> the magic combination. One very merciful soul posted the golden
> combination.
> 
> yum groupinstall "XFCE-4.4"
> 
It's unfortunate, but I've been tripped up by yum when doing searches.
I feel that especially when doing the 'search', 'list',
'whatprovides'
subcommands, the search term should be case-insensitive.
This is particularly dumb when the package name is upper-case XFCE, but
most of the individual rpms are lower-case eg. xfce4-session
Maybe a command-line option for this?