Installing, removing, and updating packages is a typical activity on Linux. Most of the Linux distributions provides some kind of package manager utility. For example, apt-get, dpkg, rpm, yum, etc.
On some Linux distributions, yum is the default package manager.
Yum stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified.
This article explains 15 most frequently used yum commands with examples.
10Install a specific software group using yum groupinstall
To install specific software group, use groupinstall option as shown below. In the following example, ‘DNS Name Server’ group contains bind and bind-chroot.
[root@yum ~]# yum groupinstall 'DNS Name Server' Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================= Installing for group install "DNS Name Server": bind-chroot x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 updates 86 k Installing for dependencies: bind x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 updates 1.8 M bind-libs x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 updates 1.0 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package (+2 Dependent packages) Total download size: 2.9 M Installed size: 6.9 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: (1/3): bind-chroot-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm | 86 kB 00:00:00 (2/3): bind-libs-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm | 1.0 MB 00:00:00 (3/3): bind-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64.rpm | 1.8 MB 00:00:00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4.3 MB/s | 2.9 MB 00:00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Installing : 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 1/3 Installing : 32:bind-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 2/3 Installing : 32:bind-chroot-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 3/3 Verifying : 32:bind-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 1/3 Verifying : 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 2/3 Verifying : 32:bind-chroot-9.9.4-51.el7_4.2.x86_64 3/3 Installed: bind-chroot.x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 Dependency Installed: bind.x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 bind-libs.x86_64 32:9.9.4-51.el7_4.2 Complete!
