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.
9List available software groups using yum grouplist
In yum, several related packages are grouped together in a specific group. Instead of searching and installing all the individual packages that belongs to a specific function, you can simply install the group, which will install all the packages that belongs to the group.
To view all the available software groups execute ‘yum grouplist’ as shown below. The output is listed in three groups–Installed Groups, Installed Language Groups and Available Groups.
[root@yum ~]# yum grouplist Available Environment Groups: Minimal Install Compute Node Infrastructure Server File and Print Server Cinnamon Desktop Development and Creative Workstation Available Groups: CIFS file server Compatibility Libraries Fedora Packager General Purpose Desktop Graphical Administration Tools Haskell Legacy UNIX Compatibility Messaging Client Support Messaging Server Support Milkymist iSCSI Storage Client
