[CentOS] CentOS 6 yum Groupinstall vs Manual install

[Jonathan Vomacka]

Jerry,

Understandable. Is I was looking for a full LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, 
PHP, etc) would a groupinstall be a good option, or does it install a 
whole bunch of other garbage that is not necessarily needed for web 
serving?

I reviewed the document you linked me to but I still seem to have questions.

On 11/8/2011 12:40 PM, Jerry Minston wrote:
> Group install is when you install a full suite of software together. If you use normal "Yum install" it will usually only install one software at a time. Take a look at this page, maybe it can help you. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=package-management
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jonathan Vomacka<juvix88 at gmail.com>
> To: centos at centos.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 18:28:42
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 yum Groupinstall vs Manual install
>
> Gentlemen,
>
> I have a question regarding yum groupinstall vs just using yum install.
> I have been reading tutorials online (for example how to run a Centos
> LAMP). Most of the tutorials have examples to install httpd, mysql, etc
> using yum install httpd....
>
> The reason for this e-mail is that I noticed in yum grouplist that there
> is an option to install Web Server, MySQL database server, etc.
>
> Question: Is there any advantage to using yum groupinstall for a
> webserver as opposed to using yum install httpd? I am just curious why
> most online docs dont mention groupinstall and only reference installing
> each app manually one by one.
>
> Any information would be appreciated
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