Information about the package, libibverbs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libibverbs package is designed for, A library for direct userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/iWARP).
Package Name:
libibverbs
Summary:
A library for direct userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/iWARP)
Description:
libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use RDMA "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification and the RDMA Protocol Verbs Specification. This includes direct hardware access from userspace to InfiniBand/iWARP adapters (kernel bypass) for fast path operations. For this library to be useful, a device-specific plug-in module should also be installed.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.8
Release:
4.el6
Size:
53 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or BSD
Control the libibverbs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libibverbs
This command will install libibverbs on the server.
yum remove libibverbs
This command will un-install libibverbs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libibverbs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libibverbs
This command will un-install libibverbs 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 libibverbs when using the -y flag.
yum update libibverbs
This command will update libibverbs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libibverbs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libibverbs
This command will update libibverbs 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 libibverbs when using the -y flag.
yum info libibverbs
This command will show you core information about the libibverbs package.
yum deplist libibverbs
This command will show you the dependencies for libibverbs. 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 libibverbs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libibverbs. 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.