Information about the package, metacity-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The metacity-devel package is designed for, Development files for metacity.
Package Name:
metacity-devel
Summary:
Development files for metacity
Description:
This package contains the files needed for compiling programs using the metacity-private library. Note that you are not supposed to write programs using the metacity-private library, since it is a private API. This package exists purely for technical reasons.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.28.0
Release:
23.el6
Size:
59 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the metacity-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install metacity-devel
This command will install metacity-devel on the server.
yum remove metacity-devel
This command will un-install metacity-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove metacity-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove metacity-devel
This command will un-install metacity-devel 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 metacity-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update metacity-devel
This command will update metacity-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove metacity-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update metacity-devel
This command will update metacity-devel 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 metacity-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info metacity-devel
This command will show you core information about the metacity-devel package.
yum deplist metacity-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for metacity-devel. 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 metacity-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on metacity-devel. 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.