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hyphen


Information about the package, hyphen, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hyphen package is designed for, A text hyphenation library.


Package Name:

hyphen

Summary:

A text hyphenation library

Description:

Hyphen is a library for high quality hyphenation and justification.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.4

Release:

5.1.el6

Size:

22 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ or MPLv1.1



Handy Yum Commands for hyphen


Control the hyphen package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install hyphen

This command will install hyphen on the server.

yum remove hyphen

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

yum -y remove hyphen

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

yum update hyphen

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

yum -y update hyphen

This command will update hyphen 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 hyphen when using the -y flag.

yum info hyphen

This command will show you core information about the hyphen package.

yum deplist hyphen

This command will show you the dependencies for hyphen. 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 hyphen

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