Information about the package, libmnl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libmnl package is designed for, A minimalistic Netlink library.
Package Name:
libmnl
Summary:
A minimalistic Netlink library
Description:
libmnl is a minimalistic user-space library oriented to Netlink developers. There are a lot of common tasks in parsing, validating, constructing of both the Netlink header and TLVs that are repetitive and easy to get wrong. This library aims to provide simple helpers that allows you to re-use code and to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.2
Release:
3.el6
Size:
21 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libmnl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libmnl
This command will install libmnl on the server.
yum remove libmnl
This command will un-install libmnl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmnl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libmnl
This command will un-install libmnl 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 libmnl when using the -y flag.
yum update libmnl
This command will update libmnl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmnl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libmnl
This command will update libmnl 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 libmnl when using the -y flag.
yum info libmnl
This command will show you core information about the libmnl package.
yum deplist libmnl
This command will show you the dependencies for libmnl. 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 libmnl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libmnl. 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.