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python-docutils


Information about the package, python-docutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The python-docutils package is designed for, A system for processing plaintext documentation.


Package Name:

python-docutils

Summary:

A system for processing plaintext documentation

Description:

The Docutils project specifies a plaintext markup language, reStructuredText, which is easy to read and quick to write. The project includes a python library to parse rST files and transform them into other useful formats such as HTML, XML, and TeX as well as commandline tools that give the enduser access to this functionality. Currently, the library supports parsing rST that is in standalone files and PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). Work is underway to parse rST from Python inline documentation modules and packages.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.6

Release:

1.el6

Size:

1.3 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

Public Domain and MIT and Python and GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for python-docutils


Control the python-docutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install python-docutils

This command will install python-docutils on the server.

yum remove python-docutils

This command will un-install python-docutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-docutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove python-docutils

This command will un-install python-docutils 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 python-docutils when using the -y flag.

yum update python-docutils

This command will update python-docutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-docutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update python-docutils

This command will update python-docutils 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 python-docutils when using the -y flag.

yum info python-docutils

This command will show you core information about the python-docutils package.

yum deplist python-docutils

This command will show you the dependencies for python-docutils. 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 python-docutils

This command will check if there is an update waiting on python-docutils. 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.