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What are yum groups?
A set of packages can themselves be organized as a yum group. Examples include the groups for Eclipse, fonts, and system administration tools. The following table shows the yum commands that you can use to manage these groups. Lists installed groups and groups that are available for installation.
How do I create a yum group repository?
Setting up your own groups in your own repository
- You can either open a text editor and create the groups xml file manually or you can run the yum-groups-manager command from yum-utils.
- To include this in a repository, just tell createrepo to use it when making or remaking your repository.
What is group installation?
An installation group is set of serialized items that have the same location and are owned by the same business partner.
What command will install a package group in Linux?
You can use the option yum grouplist command to list available package groups. The option groupinstall is used to install a group of packages.
How to create a group file in Yum?
Groups in yum are generally defined in a /…-comps.xml file (or similar, where… is a random string) within the repodata directory of the repo. If the repo was created manually, they may have forgotten to include a group file (or at least, forgot to use the one that comes with CentOS). createrepo -g $ {GROUPS_FILE}.
How are groups defined in the yum repo?
Groups in yum are defined by the repositories themselves. If yum group list does not list any groups, it means none of the enabled yum repositories have groups defined. Groups in yum are generally defined in a /…-comps.xml file (or similar, where is a random string) within the repodata directory of the repo.
Where can I find the configuration file for Yum?
Configuring Yum and Yum Repositories. The configuration file for yum and related utilities is located at /etc/yum.conf. This file contains one mandatory [main] section, which allows you to set Yum options that have global effect, and can also contain one or more [ repository] sections, which allow you to set repository-specific options.
What is the default debuglevel value for Yum?
Setting a higher debuglevel value causes yum to display more detailed debugging output. debuglevel=0 disables debugging output, while debuglevel=2 is the default.