After performing a base install of CentOS 6 using the minimal install CD, you may find that a lot of commands that you would expect are not there. Do the following to install additional, basic Linux packages that are common to most Linux distributions:
# yum groupinstall "Base"
Run the following in order to see detailed information including a description and which packages it will install.
# yum groupinfo "Base"
Group: Base
Description: The basic installation of CentOS Linux.
Mandatory Packages:
alsa-utils
at
authconfig
bc
bind-utils
centos-indexhtml
crontabs
cyrus-sasl-plain
dbus
ed
file
logrotate
lsof
man
ntsysv
parted
pciutils
psacct
quota
setserial
tmpwatch
traceroute
Default Packages:
abrt-addon-ccpp
abrt-addon-kerneloops
abrt-addon-python
abrt-cli
acpid
b43-fwcutter
biosdevname
blktrace
bridge-utils
bzip2
cpuspeed
cryptsetup-luks
dmraid
dosfstools
eject
ethtool
fprintd-pam
gnupg2
hunspell
hunspell-en
irqbalance
kexec-tools
ledmon
libaio
lvm2
man-pages
man-pages-overrides
mdadm
microcode_ctl
mlocate
mtr
nano
ntp
ntpdate
openssh-clients
pam_passwdqc
pcmciautils
pinfo
plymouth
pm-utils
prelink
rdate
readahead
rfkill
rng-tools
rsync
scl-utils
setuptool
smartmontools
sos
strace
sysstat
system-config-firewall-tui
system-config-network-tui
systemtap-runtime
tcpdump
tcsh
time
unzip
usbutils
vconfig
vim-enhanced
virt-what
wget
which
wireless-tools
words
xz
yum-plugin-security
yum-utils
zip
Optional Packages:
PyPAM
audispd-plugins
brltty
cpupowerutils
device-mapper-persistent-data
dos2unix
dumpet
ecryptfs-utils
edac-utils
genisoimage
gpm
kabi-yum-plugins
kernel-doc
linuxptp
logwatch
mkbootdisk
mtools
ncurses-term
nss_db
oddjob
pax
python-dmidecode
python-volume_key
rsyslog-gnutls
rsyslog-gssapi
rsyslog-relp
sgpio
sox
squashfs-tools
star
tboot
tunctl
udftools
unix2dos
uuidd
volume_key
wodim
x86info
yum-plugin-aliases
yum-plugin-changelog
yum-plugin-downloadonly
yum-plugin-tmprepo
yum-plugin-verify
yum-plugin-versionlock
yum-presto
zsh
There are additional package groups that may be useful in order to easily setup a particular service. To see a list of all the installed and available package groups:
# yum grouplist
My System Configuration
- CentOS 6.5 x86 64-bit