Information about the package, c-ares, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The c-ares package is designed for, A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations.
Package Name:
c-ares
Summary:
A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
Description:
c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.10.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
75 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the c-ares package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install c-ares
This command will install c-ares on the server.
yum remove c-ares
This command will un-install c-ares on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove c-ares, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove c-ares
This command will un-install c-ares 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 c-ares when using the -y flag.
yum update c-ares
This command will update c-ares to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove c-ares, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update c-ares
This command will update c-ares 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 c-ares when using the -y flag.
yum info c-ares
This command will show you core information about the c-ares package.
yum deplist c-ares
This command will show you the dependencies for c-ares. 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 c-ares
This command will check if there is an update waiting on c-ares. 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.