Information about the package, perl-PAR-Dist, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-PAR-Dist package is designed for, Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions.
Package Name:
perl-PAR-Dist
Summary:
Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions
Description:
This module creates and manipulates PAR distributions. They are architecture- specific PAR files, containing everything under blib/ of CPAN distributions after their make or Build stage, a META.yml describing metadata of the original CPAN distribution, and a MANIFEST detailing all files within it. Digitally signed PAR distributions will also contain a SIGNATURE file.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.46
Release:
2.el6
Size:
30 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-PAR-Dist package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-PAR-Dist
This command will install perl-PAR-Dist on the server.
yum remove perl-PAR-Dist
This command will un-install perl-PAR-Dist on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-PAR-Dist, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-PAR-Dist
This command will un-install perl-PAR-Dist 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 perl-PAR-Dist when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-PAR-Dist
This command will update perl-PAR-Dist to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-PAR-Dist, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-PAR-Dist
This command will update perl-PAR-Dist 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 perl-PAR-Dist when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-PAR-Dist
This command will show you core information about the perl-PAR-Dist package.
yum deplist perl-PAR-Dist
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-PAR-Dist. 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 perl-PAR-Dist
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-PAR-Dist. 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.