Information about the package, dialog-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dialog-devel package is designed for, Development files for building applications with the dialog.
Package Name:
dialog-devel
Summary:
Development files for building applications with the dialog
Description:
Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces. This package contains the files needed for developing applications, which use the dialog library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1
Release:
10.20080819.el6
Size:
37 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2
Control the dialog-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dialog-devel
This command will install dialog-devel on the server.
yum remove dialog-devel
This command will un-install dialog-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dialog-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dialog-devel
This command will un-install dialog-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 dialog-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update dialog-devel
This command will update dialog-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dialog-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dialog-devel
This command will update dialog-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 dialog-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info dialog-devel
This command will show you core information about the dialog-devel package.
yum deplist dialog-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for dialog-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 dialog-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dialog-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.