yonas Abraham: >> do: >> yum grouplist >> >> and it should display all the available groups that you can use. I see >> Base group that seems closer to Core. You can do yum groupinfo Base >> to see if that is what you are looking for. subhodip biswas: > Thanks a lot . But since my livna repo is enabled there are some > issues with it . anyways group Core also exists which may serve my > purpose. Simply temporarily disable the Livna repo for that query. You should get a list of groups that's only applicable to the enabled repos. i.e. yum --disablerepo=livna grouplist -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.