Information about the package, pixman-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pixman-devel package is designed for, Pixel manipulation library development package.
Package Name:
pixman-devel
Summary:
Pixel manipulation library development package
Description:
Development library for pixman.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.32.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
20 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the pixman-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pixman-devel
This command will install pixman-devel on the server.
yum remove pixman-devel
This command will un-install pixman-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pixman-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pixman-devel
This command will un-install pixman-devel 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 pixman-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update pixman-devel
This command will update pixman-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pixman-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pixman-devel
This command will update pixman-devel 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 pixman-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info pixman-devel
This command will show you core information about the pixman-devel package.
yum deplist pixman-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for pixman-devel. 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 pixman-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pixman-devel. 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.