This afternoon, I’m installing a new Fedora Core Linux box on my network and I need to compile some stuff, but I did a bare install from the first FC CD. Needless to say, doing a bare install doesn’t include things like gcc, bison, gettext, etc. Well instead of having to install every needed development package, I just installed a package group. I couldn’t remember the way to pull this off with yum, so I Googled for “package groups fedora yum install” and got a wonderful quick howto from nixcraft.
yum is an interactive tool or automated update program which can be used for maintaining systems using rpm (read as RedHat and friends).
It allows you to install single package or group of package. For example let us say you are running a web server with PHP+MySQL. Now you need complete development environment i.e gcc C/C++ compilers, subversion cvs, perl and related libraries.
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