Tech/Yum

• Yum download packages

   # yum install yum-utils
   # yumdownloader <packagename>
   # yumdownloader --source <packagename>

• Yum group install
  • For OL6

    # yum grouplist
    Setting up Group Process
    ol6_latest/group                                                                                                                                                                             | 1.1 MB     00:01     
    Installed Groups:
       E-mail server
    Available Groups:
       Additional Development
       Backup Client
       Backup Server
       Base
       CIFS file server
       Client management tools
       Compatibility libraries
       Console internet tools
       Debugging Tools
       Desktop
       Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools
       Desktop Platform
       Desktop Platform Development
       Development tools
       Dial-up Networking Support
       Directory Client
       Directory Server
       Eclipse
       Emacs
       FCoE Storage Client
       FTP server
       Fonts
       General Purpose Desktop
       Graphical Administration Tools
       Graphics Creation Tools
       Hardware monitoring utilities
       High Availability
       High Availability Management
       Identity Management Server
       Infiniband Support
       Input Methods
       Internet Browser
       Java Platform
       KDE Desktop
       Large Systems Performance
       Legacy UNIX compatibility
       Legacy X Window System compatibility
       Load Balancer
       Mainframe Access
       Messaging Client Support
       MySQL Database client
       MySQL Database server
       NFS file server
       Network Infrastructure Server
       Network Storage Server
       Network file system client
       Networking Tools
       PHP Support
       Performance Tools
       Perl Support
       PostgreSQL Database client
       PostgreSQL Database server
       Print Server
       Printing client
       Remote Desktop Clients
       Resilient Storage
       Ruby Support
       SNMP Support
       Scalable Filesystems
       Scientific support
       Security Tools
       Server Platform
       Server Platform Development
       Smart card support
       Somali Support
       Storage Availability Tools
       System Management
       System administration tools
       Systems Management Messaging Server support
       TeX support
       Technical Writing
       TurboGears application framework
       Virtualization
       Virtualization Client
       Virtualization Platform
       Virtualization Tools
       Web Server
       Web Servlet Engine
       Web-Based Enterprise Management
       X Window System
       iSCSI Storage Client
    Available Language Groups:
       Afrikaans Support [af]
       Albanian Support [sq]
       Amazigh Support [ber]
       Arabic Support [ar]
       Armenian Support [hy]
       Assamese Support [as]
       Azerbaijani Support [az]
       Basque Support [eu]
       Belarusian Support [be]
       Bengali Support [bn]
       Bhutanese Support [dz]
       Brazilian Portuguese Support [pt_BR]
       Breton Support [br]
       Bulgarian Support [bg]
       Catalan Support [ca]
       Chhattisgarhi Support [hne]
       Chichewa Support [ny]
       Chinese Support [zh]
       Coptic Support [cop]
       Croatian Support [hr]
       Czech Support [cs]
       Danish Support [da]
       Dutch Support [nl]
       English (UK) Support [en_GB]
       Esperanto Support [eo]
       Estonian Support [et]
       Ethiopic Support [am]
       Faroese Support [fo]
       Fijian Support [fj]
       Filipino Support [fil]
       Finnish Support [fi]
       French Support [fr]
       Frisian Support [fy]
       Friulian Support [fur]
       Gaelic Support [gd]
       Galician Support [gl]
       Georgian Support [ka]
       German Support [de]
       Greek Support [el]
       Gujarati Support [gu]
       Hebrew Support [he]
       Hiligaynon Support [hil]
       Hindi Support [hi]
       Hungarian Support [hu]
       Icelandic Support [is]
       Indonesian Support [id]
       Interlingua Support [ia]
       Inuktitut Support [iu]
       Irish Support [ga]
       Italian Support [it]
       Japanese Support [ja]
       Kannada Support [kn]
       Kashmiri Support [ks]
       Kashubian Support [csb]
       Kazakh Support [kk]
       Khmer Support [km]
       Kinyarwanda Support [rw]
       Konkani Support [kok]
       Korean Support [ko]
       Kurdish Support [ku]
       Lao Support [lo]
       Latin Support [la]
       Latvian Support [lv]
       Lithuanian Support [lt]
       Low Saxon Support [nds]
       Luxembourgish Support [lb]
       Macedonian Support [mk]
       Maithili Support [mai]
       Malagasy Support [mg]
       Malay Support [ms]
       Malayalam Support [ml]
       Maltese Support [mt]
       Manx Support [gv]
       Maori Support [mi]
       Marathi Support [mr]
       Mongolian Support [mn]
       Myanmar (Burmese) Support [my]
       Nepali Support [ne]
       Northern Sotho Support [nso]
       Norwegian Support [nb]
       Occitan Support [oc]
       Oriya Support [or]
       Persian Support [fa]
       Polish Support [pl]
       Portuguese Support [pt]
       Punjabi Support [pa]
       Romanian Support [ro]
       Russian Support [ru]
       Sanskrit Support [sa]
       Sardinian Support [sc]
       Serbian Support [sr]
       Sindhi Support [sd]
       Sinhala Support [si]
       Slovak Support [sk]
       Slovenian Support [sl]
       Southern Ndebele Support [nr]
       Southern Sotho Support [st]
       Spanish Support [es]
       Swahili Support [sw]
       Swati Support [ss]
       Swedish Support [sv]
       Tagalog Support [tl]
       Tajik Support [tg]
       Tamil Support [ta]
       Telugu Support [te]
       Tetum Support [tet]
       Thai Support [th]
       Tibetan Support [bo]
       Tsonga Support [ts]
       Tswana Support [tn]
       Turkish Support [tr]
       Turkmen Support [tk]
       Ukrainian Support [uk]
       Upper Sorbian Support [hsb]
       Urdu Support [ur]
       Uzbek Support [uz]
       Venda Support [ve]
       Vietnamese Support [vi]
       Walloon Support [wa]
       Welsh Support [cy]
       Xhosa Support [xh]
       Zulu Support [zu]
    Done

GNOME desktop:

# yum groupinstall "X Window System" Desktop

KDE desktop:

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE Desktop"

• For OL7

  # yum grouplist hidden
  # yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME"|"KDE"