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yum grouplist does not show all groups

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The command yum grouplist does not show all available groups in Fedora 19. I had the same problem
before in CentOS and other versions of Fedora. As an example, I can install

yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"

but yum grouplist does not show such a group. Is that a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

posted Sep 29, 2013 by Garima Jain

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Best answer

Use:
yum group list hidden (or yum grouplist hidden).

answer Sep 29, 2013 by Satish Mishra
And why do hidden groups exist at all? I cannot see any point of hiding  "Development Libraries". Is it very infrequently used? No. Is it  dangerous? No. So what is the point?
My guess is that the group is not intended (for whatever reason) to be  installed on its own, rather as a part of some environment like Development or Development and Creative Workstation.
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Remove /etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo. Then do yum clean all and yum grouplist.

If it still failing, the re-install your Util package again.
# yum install yum-utils

answer Sep 29, 2013 by Satyabrata Mahapatra
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# yum -y update
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 Requires: ruby(release)

References to "ruby(release)" seem incomplete. Does this suggest a config error somewhere? rpm says ruby-1.9.3.429-30.fc18.i68 is installed.

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