Re: yum vs rpm

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:43:13 -0500

hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I just ran:
>
> yum -y groupinstall Office/Productivity
> yum groupinstall Office/Productivity
>
> but would prefer a finer degree of control over what gets installed.
> Basically, that'd mean downloading RPM's manually (for Fedora)?

You can do "yum list" to get a list of packages, and do "yum install
package-name" to install the individual ones if you like.

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