Information about the package, lzo, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lzo package is designed for, Data compression library with very fast (de)compression.
Package Name:
lzo
Summary:
Data compression library with very fast (de)compression
Description:
LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.03
Release:
3.1.el6_5.1
Size:
55 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the lzo package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install lzo
This command will install lzo on the server.
yum remove lzo
This command will un-install lzo on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lzo, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove lzo
This command will un-install lzo 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 lzo when using the -y flag.
yum update lzo
This command will update lzo to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lzo, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update lzo
This command will update lzo 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 lzo when using the -y flag.
yum info lzo
This command will show you core information about the lzo package.
yum deplist lzo
This command will show you the dependencies for lzo. 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 lzo
This command will check if there is an update waiting on lzo. 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.