Information about the package, boost-system, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The boost-system package is designed for, Runtime component of boost system support library.
Package Name:
boost-system
Summary:
Runtime component of boost system support library
Description:
Runtime component of Boost operating system support library, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.41.0
Release:
28.el6
Size:
26 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Boost
Control the boost-system package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install boost-system
This command will install boost-system on the server.
yum remove boost-system
This command will un-install boost-system on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove boost-system, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove boost-system
This command will un-install boost-system 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 boost-system when using the -y flag.
yum update boost-system
This command will update boost-system to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove boost-system, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update boost-system
This command will update boost-system 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 boost-system when using the -y flag.
yum info boost-system
This command will show you core information about the boost-system package.
yum deplist boost-system
This command will show you the dependencies for boost-system. 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 boost-system
This command will check if there is an update waiting on boost-system. 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.