yum groupinstall groupupgrade

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Jul 26 20:10:47 UTC 2004



On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> How do the yum options groupinstall groupupgrade work?
> 
> The yum man page doesn't bother to explain any more than:
>         * groupinstall [...]
>         * groupupdate [...]
> 
> Which appears it would be 
>  `yum groupupgrade pkg pkg2 pkg3'
> 
> That fails though so it must mean something different.
>     yum groupupdate cdda2wav cdrecord
>   Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>   Server: My fedraw mirror, or real carroll rawhide, or kernel.org mirror rawhide
>  Finding updated packages
>  Downloading needed headers
>  Getting groups from servers
>  yumgroups.xml 0% |   |    0 B --:-- ET
>  yumgroups.xml 100% |=========================| 411 kB    00:00  


groupupdate requires group names - not package names.  Try 
'yum grouplist' to get the list of group names.

for eg:
yum groupupdate "Administration Tools"

Satish





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