View Information(Description and Required Packages) of a group using yum

In one of my earlier post, I wrote about finding available software groups on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora. But you might not know what each of these group is for, what packages it will install and stuff like that. This is the topic of this post.

Let's say I want to know more about the group "Basic Web Server". To view the information, run the following command,

yum groups info "Basic Web Server"

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Environment Group: Basic Web Server
 Environment-Id: web-server-environment
 Description: Server for serving static and dynamic internet content.
 Mandatory Groups:
   +base
   +core
   +web-server
 Optional Groups:
   +backup-client
   +debugging
   +directory-client
   +guest-agents
   +hardware-monitoring
   +java-platform
   +large-systems
   +load-balancer
   +mariadb-client
   +network-file-system-client
   +performance
   +perl-web
   +php
   +postgresql-client
   +python-web
   +remote-system-management
   +web-servlet

That's it.

Tested on: CentOS 7