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libunistring


Information about the package, libunistring, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libunistring package is designed for, GNU Unicode string library.


Package Name:

libunistring

Summary:

GNU Unicode string library

Description:

This portable C library implements Unicode string types in three flavours: (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32), together with functions for character processing (names, classifications, properties) and functions for string processing (iteration, formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks, normalization, case folding and regular expressions).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.9.3

Release:

5.el6

Size:

292 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv3+



Handy Yum Commands for libunistring


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install libunistring

This command will install libunistring on the server.

yum remove libunistring

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

yum -y remove libunistring

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

yum update libunistring

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

yum -y update libunistring

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

yum info libunistring

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

yum deplist libunistring

This command will show you the dependencies for libunistring. 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 libunistring

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