Yum is a really, really nice tool to know! Now that I've gotten familiar with it, I now setup servers with no package groups installed, and just use yum to get whatever I need when I need it. To see a list of all rpms available via yum yum list This can be somewhat slow, so what I tend to do is yum list > ~/rpmlist and then grep that file. Eg: grep -i thunder ~/rpmlist You can also install groups of items, (EG: All the "KDE" stuff) using groupinstall. EG: yum groupinstall kde And to get a list of groups... yum grouplist Here are some neat tricks I've discovered... To remove all of packages matching a pattern, and all dependencies, in this case, postgresql: yum remove `rpm -qa | grep postgres` Let's say you have some RPMs in a directory, and want to install them along with the dependencies: (This is one I discovered just yesterday!) yum install ./postgres* -Ben On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:48, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At 08:42 PM 12/27/2005, Jim Perrin wrote: > >On 12/27/05, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > > I just added a couple apps to a server and I was asked to insert CD > > > #3. I had wanted to use HTTP to access the distro on my HTTP server. > > > > > > Now I want to install on another server, so I have a second chance to > > > get this right.... > > > > > > >Don't use the "Add or Remove Programs" menu option. It is horribly > >broken, and provided because the upstream vendor provides the broken > >app as well. Instead, open up a terminal of your choosing and use yum. > > And what do I ask for say for Thunderbird? > > yum install thunderbird > > ? > > > > > > >-- > >Jim Perrin > >System Architect - UIT > >Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978