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cairo-devel


Information about the package, cairo-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cairo-devel package is designed for, Development files for cairo.


Package Name:

cairo-devel

Summary:

Development files for cairo

Description:

Cairo is a 2D graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. This package contains libraries, header files and developer documentation needed for developing software which uses the cairo graphics library.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.8.8

Release:

6.el6_6

Size:

314 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2 or MPLv1.1



Handy Yum Commands for cairo-devel


Control the cairo-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install cairo-devel

This command will install cairo-devel on the server.

yum remove cairo-devel

This command will un-install cairo-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cairo-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove cairo-devel

This command will un-install cairo-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 cairo-devel when using the -y flag.

yum update cairo-devel

This command will update cairo-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cairo-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update cairo-devel

This command will update cairo-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 cairo-devel when using the -y flag.

yum info cairo-devel

This command will show you core information about the cairo-devel package.

yum deplist cairo-devel

This command will show you the dependencies for cairo-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 cairo-devel

This command will check if there is an update waiting on cairo-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.