Information about the package, alsa-lib-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The alsa-lib-devel package is designed for, Development files from the ALSA library.
Package Name:
alsa-lib-devel
Summary:
Development files from the ALSA library
Description:
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. This package includes the ALSA development libraries for developing against the ALSA libraries and interfaces.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.0
Release:
4.el6
Size:
1.1 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the alsa-lib-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install alsa-lib-devel
This command will install alsa-lib-devel on the server.
yum remove alsa-lib-devel
This command will un-install alsa-lib-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove alsa-lib-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove alsa-lib-devel
This command will un-install alsa-lib-devel 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 alsa-lib-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update alsa-lib-devel
This command will update alsa-lib-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove alsa-lib-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update alsa-lib-devel
This command will update alsa-lib-devel 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 alsa-lib-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info alsa-lib-devel
This command will show you core information about the alsa-lib-devel package.
yum deplist alsa-lib-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for alsa-lib-devel. 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 alsa-lib-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on alsa-lib-devel. 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.