On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:02 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:

yum grouplist and yum groupinstall are what you want to use with yum.

yum grouplist tells you the available groups (similar to the groups available at install) yum groupinstall installs them. Keep in mind that the shell won't deal with spaces nicely, so you'll need to quote or escape.

for example -> yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'GNOME Desktop Environment' 'Sound and Video'

This should get you want you want. If you want kde, use grouplist to figure out the group name, and swap that group for the gnome group above.

thanks - seems to be OK but after the packages are downloaded i get this

Transaction Summary

Install 196 Package(s) Update 2 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 253 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6

Public key for lftp-3.4.2-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm is not installed

^^

IIRC, that indicates a package from rpmforge project? Not sure. Anyway, if so, you'll need to install the rpmforge rpm and make sure thier key is installed (done as part of that install?).

any ideas? I have installed the key at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4 so any ideas?

Ideas? Yes. Somehow get these cooperating folks to cooperate one more step by somehow getting keys cross-installed as needed. 'Course there are technical, political and security problems but nothing major ... eh? ;-)

HTH Bill