On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 08:51 -0800, Robert Hanson wrote:
} } As was previously mentioned, gcc is part of the Development Tools group. } As such: } } yum groupinstall "Development Tools" } } should take care of your one fell swoop requirement :-) } } Matt
i am grateful!, thank you to all who replied i.e. Matt, Karanbir, Jim and Johnny
man, you know, man, man pages always used to be for "switch specifics" as far as i was concerned...
now it seems that with the advent of newer tools that they man pages might also point in _broader_ command switch specific directions.
thank you for pointing that out. i wasnt totally aware of "groupinstall" let alone "grouplist"
sheesh...
thing is, that which can get you info in a hurry, can also destroy a production box in a hurry...
CentOS test machines and the CentOS list "are your friends" ;->
sorry, couldnt resist :-)
There is also a very good yum document here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/