Information about the package, mt-st, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mt-st package is designed for, Tool for controlling tape drives.
Package Name:
mt-st
Summary:
Tool for controlling tape drives
Description:
The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices) can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more. Install mt-st if you need a tool to manage tape drives.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1
Release:
5.el6
Size:
41 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the mt-st package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mt-st
This command will install mt-st on the server.
yum remove mt-st
This command will un-install mt-st on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mt-st, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mt-st
This command will un-install mt-st 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 mt-st when using the -y flag.
yum update mt-st
This command will update mt-st to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mt-st, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mt-st
This command will update mt-st 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 mt-st when using the -y flag.
yum info mt-st
This command will show you core information about the mt-st package.
yum deplist mt-st
This command will show you the dependencies for mt-st. 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 mt-st
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mt-st. 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.