Information about the package, pinfo, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pinfo package is designed for, An info file viewer.
Package Name:
pinfo
Summary:
An info file viewer
Description:
Pinfo is an info file (or man page) viewer with a user interface similar to the Lynx Web browser's interface. Pinfo supports searching using regular expressions, and is based on the ncurses library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.6.9
Release:
12.el6
Size:
114 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the pinfo package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pinfo
This command will install pinfo on the server.
yum remove pinfo
This command will un-install pinfo on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pinfo, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pinfo
This command will un-install pinfo 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 pinfo when using the -y flag.
yum update pinfo
This command will update pinfo to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pinfo, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pinfo
This command will update pinfo 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 pinfo when using the -y flag.
yum info pinfo
This command will show you core information about the pinfo package.
yum deplist pinfo
This command will show you the dependencies for pinfo. 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 pinfo
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pinfo. 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.