Thank you John R Pierce and Robert fot your prompt reply

Igor

Primorec wrote:

Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as a 'group' using yum ?

John wrote:

yum grouplist yum groupinfo "some group name"

Robert wrote:

yum grouplist

yum groupinfo "whatever group name" for full info maybe try man yum or http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM www.google.com searches

on 4-1-2008 12:45 AM D Steward spake the following:

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then I've started googling the net and .... ____finally____ I found the magic combination. One very merciful soul posted the golden combination.

yum groupinstall "XFCE-4.4"

It's unfortunate, but I've been tripped up by yum when doing searches. I feel that especially when doing the 'search', 'list', 'whatprovides' subcommands, the search term should be case-insensitive. This is particularly dumb when the package name is upper-case XFCE, but most of the individual rpms are lower-case eg. xfce4-session Maybe a command-line option for this?

A case sensitive OS will have issues like this. You are right that there should be a case insensitive option to searches, but you would have to do that at the yum creators site and wait for it to trickle down.