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- [Narrator] Yum has the concept of package groups. A package group is a pre-configured collection of packages that can be installed or removed all at one time. Package groups serve a common purpose. For instance, there's a group called Development Tools which contains what you'd expect. Development tools such as compilers and coding tools. To get a list of all Yum groups we can type in: yum group list and hit enter. You may want to note that in CentOS7 we have a sub command called Group. This is fairly new and older versions of CentOS would have a sub-command called grouplist, spelled as one word. If you see tutorials using grouplist as one word, just know that it does the same thing as group space list. The output of yum grouplist shows a couple of categories. Available Environment Groups, Installed Groups, and Available Groups. The Available Environment Groups contains collections of software for OS configurations. We see Minimal Install, Basic Web Server, and Server with GUI…

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