Ya que siempre lo preguntan por la lista de correos, este micro-artículo es sólo para recordar que existe yum groupinstall “nombre del grupo” que permite agregar, por ejemplo, el entorno de escritorio KDE completo con una sola línea de comando. Igual aplica para los otros grupos de software, es sólo cuestión de identificar el nombre del grupo adecuado, tenga cuidado de comillar adecuadamente el nombre de grupo. Por supuesto existe la contraparte gráfica con los distintos frontales como yumex o el mismo PackageKit.

Obtención de la lista de grupos

$ yum grouplist
...
Installed Groups:
   Administration Tools
   Authoring and Publishing
   Base (RPM Fusion Free)
   Base (RPM Fusion Nonfree)
   Clustering
   DNS Name Server
   Development Libraries
   Development Tools
   Editors
   Educational Software
   Engineering and Scientific
   FTP Server
   Fonts
   GNOME Desktop Environment
   GNOME Desktop Environment (RPM Fusion Free)
   Games and Entertainment
   Graphical Internet
   Graphics
   Hardware Support
   Legacy Fonts
   Legacy Network Server
   Legacy Software Development
   Mail Server
   Miscellaneous command line tools (RPM Fusion Free)
   MySQL Database
   Network Servers
   Office/Productivity
   Printing Support
   Server Configuration Tools
   Sound and Video
   Sound and Video (RPM Fusion Free)
   System Tools
   Text-based Internet
   Web Server
   Window Managers
   Windows File Server
   X Window System
Available Groups:
   Fedora Eclipse
   Fedora Packager
   GNOME Software Development
   Games and Entertainment (RPM Fusion Free)
   Games and Entertainment (RPM Fusion Nonfree)
   Hardware Support (RPM Fusion Free)
   Hardware Support (RPM Fusion Nonfree)
   Internet (RPM Fusion Free)
   Java Development
   KDE (K Desktop Environment)
   KDE (K Desktop Environment) (RPM Fusion Free)
   KDE Software Development
   News Server
   PostgreSQL Database
   SUGAR Desktop Environment
   System Tools (RPM Fusion Free)
   Virtualization
   Web Development
   X Software Development
   XFCE
   XFCE Software Development
Done

Instalación de grupo

Ejemplo con KDE, note el uso del nombre del grupo completo y las comillas.

#yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
...
Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 amarok                  i386       1.4.9.1-3.fc9    updates            13 M
 digikam                 i386       0.9.3-2.fc9      fedora             11 M
 extragear-plasma        i386       4.0.1-5.fc9      fedora            466 k
 kaffeine                i386       0.8.6-4.fc9      fedora            3.1 M
...
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install     63 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 181 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...