On 03/06/16 19:47, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:27 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: <<>> >> is there an easy way of running yum from a list instead of entering package >> names? entering names in groups of 5 to avoid problems is a bit slow. > > yum group list > > and > > yum group list hidden > > and then > > yum group install "group name goes here" "another group name goes here" > -- that looks doable, except after haven read man you again for 'group', at this time it is a little more than i feel up to dealing with. after replying to both your post, i am going to try using redirect; yum-shell install < pkgnames.file if works, great. if not, at least i will know yum-shell does not work with redirect input. >> something else interesting about fresh install, i installed 6.5 dvd1 on >> my laptop without any problems. > > It contains the packages on the media. Netinstalls grab the latest > versions of the packages. If you do a netinstall, and then a yum > upgrade after rebooting, nothing needs to be updated. If you download > even CentOS 6.7 and do a yum upgrade a bunch of stuff will get > replaced. > -- that seems to be what i seem to recall. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .