Information about the package, DeviceKit-power, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The DeviceKit-power package is designed for, Power Management Service.
Package Name:
DeviceKit-power
Summary:
Power Management Service
Description:
DeviceKit-power provides a daemon, API and command line tools for managing power devices attached to the system.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
014
Release:
3.el6
Size:
91 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the DeviceKit-power package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install DeviceKit-power
This command will install DeviceKit-power on the server.
yum remove DeviceKit-power
This command will un-install DeviceKit-power on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove DeviceKit-power, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove DeviceKit-power
This command will un-install DeviceKit-power on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove DeviceKit-power when using the -y flag.
yum update DeviceKit-power
This command will update DeviceKit-power to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove DeviceKit-power, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update DeviceKit-power
This command will update DeviceKit-power to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove DeviceKit-power when using the -y flag.
yum info DeviceKit-power
This command will show you core information about the DeviceKit-power package.
yum deplist DeviceKit-power
This command will show you the dependencies for DeviceKit-power. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update DeviceKit-power
This command will check if there is an update waiting on DeviceKit-power. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.