Information about the package, libtar, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libtar package is designed for, Tar file manipulation API.
Package Name:
libtar
Summary:
Tar file manipulation API
Description:
libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU extensions.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.11
Release:
17.el6_4.1
Size:
30 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the libtar package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libtar
This command will install libtar on the server.
yum remove libtar
This command will un-install libtar on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtar, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libtar
This command will un-install libtar 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 libtar when using the -y flag.
yum update libtar
This command will update libtar to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtar, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libtar
This command will update libtar 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 libtar when using the -y flag.
yum info libtar
This command will show you core information about the libtar package.
yum deplist libtar
This command will show you the dependencies for libtar. 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 libtar
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libtar. 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.