Information about the package, perl-String-CRC32, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-String-CRC32 package is designed for, Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation.
Package Name:
perl-String-CRC32
Summary:
Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
Description:
This packages provides a perl module to generate checksums from strings and from files. The checksums are the same as those calculated by ZMODEM, PKZIP, PICCHECK and many others. There's another perl module called String::CRC, which supports calculation of CRC values of various widths (i.e. not just 32 bits), but the generated sums differ from those of the programs mentioned above.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4
Release:
9.el6
Size:
15 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the perl-String-CRC32 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-String-CRC32
This command will install perl-String-CRC32 on the server.
yum remove perl-String-CRC32
This command will un-install perl-String-CRC32 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-String-CRC32, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-String-CRC32
This command will un-install perl-String-CRC32 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-String-CRC32 when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-String-CRC32
This command will update perl-String-CRC32 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-String-CRC32, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-String-CRC32
This command will update perl-String-CRC32 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-String-CRC32 when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-String-CRC32
This command will show you core information about the perl-String-CRC32 package.
yum deplist perl-String-CRC32
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-String-CRC32. 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-String-CRC32
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-String-CRC32. 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.