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freetype-demos


Information about the package, freetype-demos, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freetype-demos package is designed for, A collection of FreeType demos.


Package Name:

freetype-demos

Summary:

A collection of FreeType demos

Description:

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. The demos package includes a set of useful small utilities showing various capabilities of the FreeType library.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.3.11

Release:

17.el6

Size:

178 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

FTL or GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for freetype-demos


Control the freetype-demos package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install freetype-demos

This command will install freetype-demos on the server.

yum remove freetype-demos

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

yum -y remove freetype-demos

This command will un-install freetype-demos 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 freetype-demos when using the -y flag.

yum update freetype-demos

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

yum -y update freetype-demos

This command will update freetype-demos 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 freetype-demos when using the -y flag.

yum info freetype-demos

This command will show you core information about the freetype-demos package.

yum deplist freetype-demos

This command will show you the dependencies for freetype-demos. 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 freetype-demos

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