Information about the package, rpm-apidocs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rpm-apidocs package is designed for, API documentation for RPM libraries.
Package Name:
rpm-apidocs
Summary:
API documentation for RPM libraries
URL:
Description:
This package contains API documentation for developing applications that will manipulate RPM packages and databases.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
4.8.0
Release:
55.el6
Size:
1.4 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rpm-apidocs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rpm-apidocs
This command will install rpm-apidocs on the server.
yum remove rpm-apidocs
This command will un-install rpm-apidocs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpm-apidocs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rpm-apidocs
This command will un-install rpm-apidocs 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 rpm-apidocs when using the -y flag.
yum update rpm-apidocs
This command will update rpm-apidocs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpm-apidocs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rpm-apidocs
This command will update rpm-apidocs 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 rpm-apidocs when using the -y flag.
yum info rpm-apidocs
This command will show you core information about the rpm-apidocs package.
yum deplist rpm-apidocs
This command will show you the dependencies for rpm-apidocs. 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 rpm-apidocs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rpm-apidocs. 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.