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Installing packages by group

Installing packages by group

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Installing packages by group

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- [Instructor] Yum allows you to install packages by group, as well as individually. And, you can explore what groups are available with yum grouplist. You can either install the base environments that were available during the set-up process, or add some other groups such as development tools and security tools. To find out more about a group, you can use the group info command. I'll type yum groupinfo and then Basic Web Server in double quotes. That option appears in the available environment groups. Here, I can see the mandatory groups which are the groups of packages that will be installed and optional groups that I can add onto the end of the install command if I want one of these options. To install a group, I can write yum groupinstall (keyboard keys clacking) and the name of the group. And some of the optional packages too. Php and load-balancer, for example. I'll accept these options and let yum install the software. If I decided that I didn't want this group installed…

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