Information about the package, perl-Sys-Virt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Sys-Virt package is designed for, Represent and manage a libvirt hypervisor connection.
Package Name:
perl-Sys-Virt
Summary:
Represent and manage a libvirt hypervisor connection
Description:
The Sys::Virt module provides a Perl XS binding to the libvirt virtual machine management APIs. This allows machines running within arbitrary virtualization containers to be managed with a consistent API.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.10.2
Release:
6.el6
Size:
255 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Sys-Virt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Sys-Virt
This command will install perl-Sys-Virt on the server.
yum remove perl-Sys-Virt
This command will un-install perl-Sys-Virt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Sys-Virt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Sys-Virt
This command will un-install perl-Sys-Virt 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-Sys-Virt when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Sys-Virt
This command will update perl-Sys-Virt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Sys-Virt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Sys-Virt
This command will update perl-Sys-Virt 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-Sys-Virt when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Sys-Virt
This command will show you core information about the perl-Sys-Virt package.
yum deplist perl-Sys-Virt
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Sys-Virt. 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-Sys-Virt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Sys-Virt. 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.