Yum groupinstall !

Yum groupinstall may save your hours!

Today I was creating some kind of setup, So during performing those installation steps, I have found one interesting and time saving option that is used with yum command  and can make our tasks really easy. The option is groupinstall and the whole command is

"yum groupinstall <"package name">".

Though I was little aware of this But have never gone through this. So today I have just done some R&D on this and here is the result. The option "groupinstall" is used to install all the package related to particular type of software. Suppose I want to install all Mysql Database Packages, then instead of installing packages one by one you can make the use of command given below.

[root@server2 ~]#yum groupinstall "MySQL Database" 

Now question may arise from where I have got string <"MySQL Database">, So answer is before running above command use following command for listing available groups. It will shows you list of installed groups along with Available groups.

[root@server2 ~]#yum grouplist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Setting up Group Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * base: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
 * extras: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * updates: centosv4.centos.org
Installed Groups:
   Administration Tools
   Authoring and Publishing
   Cluster Storage
   Clustering
   DNS Name Server
   Dialup Networking Support
   Editors
   Engineering and Scientific
   FTP Server
   GNOME Desktop Environment
   GNOME Software Development
   Games and Entertainment
   Graphical Internet
   Graphics
   Java
   Legacy Network Server
   Legacy Software Development
   Legacy Software Support
   Mail Server
   Network Servers
   Office/Productivity
   Printing Support
   Server Configuration Tools
   Sound and Video
   System Tools
   Text-based Internet
   Windows File Server
   X Window System
   Yum Utilities
Available Groups:
   Base
   Beagle
   Development Libraries
   Development Tools
   Educational Software
   Electronic Lab
   Emacs
   Fedora Packager
   FreeNX and NX
   Hardware Support
   Horde
   Java Development
   KDE (K Desktop Environment)
   KDE Software Development
   KVM
   Mono
   MySQL Database
   News Server
   OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
   PostgreSQL Database
   Ruby
   Tomboy
   Virtualization
   Web Development
   Web Server
   Window Managers
   X Software Development
   XFCE-4.4
Done
[root@server2 ~]#

Now we know the all available groups name. So its time to execute.You should type the name as shown in the list including the quotation marks. It will install everything on that group.

Be careful before using it. It may install many unnecessary things. Use it where it is really necessary.

One More Case May arise that what if you want to get list of packages that is Default Packages and Optional Packages that particular group contains. In that Case use following command.

#yum groupinfo <"Group Name"> 

e.g.

[root@server2 ~]#yum groupinfo "MySQL Database"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Setting up Group Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * base: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
 * extras: mirror.neu.edu.cn
 * updates: centosv4.centos.org
Group: MySQL Database
 Description: This package group contains packages useful for use with MySQL.
 Mandatory Packages:
   mysql
 Default Packages:
   MySQL-python
   libdbi-dbd-mysql
   mysql-connector-odbc
   mysql-server
   perl-DBD-MySQL
   unixODBC
 Optional Packages:
   mod_auth_mysql
   mysql-bench
   mysql-devel
   php-mysql
   qt-MySQL
[root@server2 ~]#

Hope it will be Helpfull.

!Enjoy

Kuldeep Sharma