Development Libraries on CentOS Missing from yum grouplist

Question

I'm trying to compile some software that requires the use of the "Development Libraries"

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"
yum install gcc-g++ git-core wget links zip unzip unrar
yum install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-devel
yum install openssl
yum install cmake (Must be CMake ≥ 2.8.12)

One obstacle was getting cmake higher than 2.6 on CentOS 6.2 x64... found out I just had to run

yum install cmake28

my issue with it is it installed cmake28-2.8.11.2-1.el6.x86_64 still not the one it wants but I can't seem to get any higher with out I guess self compiling which I hear it's a nightmare.

ignoring the fact that when I type

yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"

it returns

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * epel: mirrors.rit.edu
 * extras: centos.mirror.constant.com
 * rpmforge: repoforge.mirror.constant.com
 * updates: yum.singlehop.com
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
Warning: Group Development Libraries does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

Warning: Group Development Libraries does not exist.

So I'm at a stale mate and I think because the Libraries do not exist for me to install I cannot get cmake to well work... I have cmake installed but when I try to issue

[root@serve5 build]# cmake ../ -DPREFIX=/home/`echo $USER`/server
-bash: cmake: command not found

but as you can see here

[root@serve5 build]# yum update cmake28
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * epel: mirrors.rit.edu
 * extras: centos.mirror.constant.com
 * rpmforge: repoforge.mirror.constant.com
 * updates: yum.singlehop.com
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

or

[root@serve5 build]# yum install cmake28 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.serveraxis.net
 * epel: mirrors.rit.edu
 * extras: centos.mirror.constant.com
 * rpmforge: repoforge.mirror.constant.com
 * updates: yum.singlehop.com
Setting up Install Process
Package cmake28-2.8.11.2-1.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

So I'm kinda stumped and I'm certain it's because of a resource I am missing that's in the Libraries that no longer exist.

Also if this is the wrong exchange site sorry which is the correct one for unix/linux problems?

Answer 1

Use this instead: yum groupinstall "Additional Development"

Answer 2

I was getting an error with the repositories as well. The following resolved it for me

$ sudo su
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo

I changed enabled=1 to enabled=0 and :wq

I create a small shell script:

#!/bin/sh

echo "installing essential tools and libraries for CentOS" ;

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" ;
yum -y groupinstall "Development Libraries" ;
yum -y install gcc-g++ git-core wget links zip unzip unrar ;
yum -y install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-devel ;
yum -y install openssl ;
yum -y install cmake ;

echo "Done."

I ran the script and everything installed successfully. Then, I was able to use yum to install clamav and everything else I wanted to install so far.

Answer 3

wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.12.1-Linux-i386.tar.gz

Unpack and copy it to /usr/local

sudo tar xvfz cmake-2.8.12.1-Linux-i386.tar.gz

cd cmake-2.8.4-Linux-i386

sudo cp -R cmake-2.8.12.1-Linux-i386/* /usr/local

turns out it was easier than it looked....

also made sure to first run

yum remove cmake28

Development Libraries are missing but I guess they are installed somewhere else maybe merged with Development Tools.