Information about the package, compat-expat1, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The compat-expat1 package is designed for, A library for parsing XML documents.
Package Name:
compat-expat1
Summary:
A library for parsing XML documents
Description:
This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.95.8
Release:
8.el6
Size:
60 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the compat-expat1 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install compat-expat1
This command will install compat-expat1 on the server.
yum remove compat-expat1
This command will un-install compat-expat1 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-expat1, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove compat-expat1
This command will un-install compat-expat1 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 compat-expat1 when using the -y flag.
yum update compat-expat1
This command will update compat-expat1 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-expat1, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update compat-expat1
This command will update compat-expat1 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 compat-expat1 when using the -y flag.
yum info compat-expat1
This command will show you core information about the compat-expat1 package.
yum deplist compat-expat1
This command will show you the dependencies for compat-expat1. 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 compat-expat1
This command will check if there is an update waiting on compat-expat1. 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.