Information about the package, ocaml, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ocaml package is designed for, Objective Caml compiler and programming environment.
Package Name:
ocaml
Summary:
Objective Caml compiler and programming environment
URL:
Description:
Objective Caml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional and object-oriented programming language from the ML family of languages. This package comprises two batch compilers (a fast bytecode compiler and an optimizing native-code compiler), an interactive toplevel system, parsing tools (Lex,Yacc,Camlp4), a replay debugger, a documentation generator, and a comprehensive library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.11.2
Release:
5.el6
Size:
5.2 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
QPL and (LGPLv2+ with exceptions)
Control the ocaml package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ocaml
This command will install ocaml on the server.
yum remove ocaml
This command will un-install ocaml on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ocaml, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ocaml
This command will un-install ocaml 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 ocaml when using the -y flag.
yum update ocaml
This command will update ocaml to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ocaml, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ocaml
This command will update ocaml 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 ocaml when using the -y flag.
yum info ocaml
This command will show you core information about the ocaml package.
yum deplist ocaml
This command will show you the dependencies for ocaml. 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 ocaml
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ocaml. 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.