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Install/remove package groups

Install/remove package groups - Linux Tutorial

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Install/remove package groups

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- [Narrator] Managing package groups is not that different from managing packages. Every yum group has a group ID in addition to a group name. To get a list of all group names, including IDs type in yum group list IDs and hit Enter. This will show all groups and inside parentheses the group ID. The group ID is a more command line friendly name without spaces in it. You can manage groups using the group name or the group ID. If you use a group name, enclose it in double quotes since some of them have spaces in them. With the ID there's no need for double quotes. There's four different ways of identifying a group. We can use the group name enclosed in double quotes. In this case yum group install double quote security tools double quote. We could also use the group ID. The group ID of the security tools group would be security - tools. So you type in yum group install security - tools. We can also manage groups using package tools if we prefix the group names and ID's with the @ symbol.…

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