yum groupinstall optional packages

[tedi]

hi,

i want to install "Graphics" group packages. so i run this:

yum groupinstall "Graphics"

but it wont install the optional packages. I've been googling around to find the ways but unfortunately i don't find it. is there any command to install all the optional packages all at once without doing it one by one?

[stoat]

Hello tedi,

I don't know a command to do that either. Sorry. But here is a way that I have done it that's at least better than one-at-a-time (in case a better idea never comes). Get a list of them with yum groupinfo Graphics. That takes about a minute. Then copy the list of optional packages from the terminal to a text editor. Manually adjust the spacing and remove newlines until you have a long string of package names resembling a paragraph. That takes about a minute. Then add yum install at the front of it and paste it back into the terminal.

[tedi]

great idea! its like this rite?:

yum install ImageMagick Panini agave argyllcms

although it is quite a job to do it, but this is better than installing one by one.

[stoat]

That's right. Or, exactly like this...

yum install ImageMagick Panini agave argyllcms asciio asymptote blender cbrpager cinepaint comix dcraw digikam f-spot fyre gcolor2 geeqie gifsicle gifview gipfel gnome-scan gpp gqview graphviz gutenprint-plugin gv hugin inkscape ipe k3d kdegraphics kipi-plugins koffice-krita kphotoalbum makehuman mirage netpbm-progs nip2 optipng pstoedit pydot qiv rawstudio renrot sane-frontends showimg tachyon tuxpaint tzclock ufraw uniconvertor viewnior wings xfig xpaint xsane

It's not elegant, but it wasn't so much work either. I did that by hand, but I have a little script that I use to convert a list to a paragraph for this purpose. It saves a minute, but I only do things like this about once every six months.

[tedi]

a script hmm... can you share your script with us?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

You can set group_package_types to optional in /etc/yum.conf. Refer to man yum.conf for details.

[stoat]

Thanks. Obviously the definitive answer.

[tedi]

wow! thanks Rahul. by adding:

group_package_types=mandatory,default,optional

under [main] in /etc/yum.conf, all the packages now is included in the installation. this is just awesome.

[Buchmueller]

yum install `repoquery -g -l --grouppkgs=all 'graphics' `

[benson]

yum --setopt=group_package_types=optional groupinstall "Your Package Group"