[Yum] groupinstall openoffice?

[Jim Perrin]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> two questions:
> 
> what's the command to install openoffice?
yum install openoffice.org  (simple isn't it)

> how do you figure these things out?
We read the documentation in the man pages, and use the archives for the 
mailing list.
> 
> a GUI, or even text/menu, driven yum "client" would be much appreciated :)
Such an animal already exists. up2date in fedora has been using yum for 
a while now. There is also a gui called yumi, and I'm positive I'm 
forgetting other projects for this.

yum is an extremely simple animal to use. If you want to install 
something, yum install foo. If you have group of things in your 
repository to install, yum groupinstall bar. If you just want know what 
a package is called, yum list "baz*". And just to keep your system 
updated.... yum update. About 5 minutes with the manpage will get you 
acquainted enough with yum to be able to do anything you want.


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Jim Perrin
Central IT
Ohio University