> > yum groupinstall group_choosen > > This seems quite a good thing. > However, it lacks a 'distro_everything' group that would allow us to instal > directly all packages of the distro. We must type each group manually and > it's a pain. That would be a must. Maybe it is something to add to the yum > functionnality ? Or else to make several top level groups that contain > almost everything ? how about: yum grouplist | sed -n "s/^ //p" | while read i; do echo yum -y groupinstall "\"$i\""; done and then execute that...? or even directly yum grouplist | sed -n "s/^ //p" | while read i; do yum -y groupinstall "$i"; done Cheers, MaZe.