Information about the package, setserial, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The setserial package is designed for, A utility for configuring serial ports.
Package Name:
setserial
Summary:
A utility for configuring serial ports
Description:
Setserial is a basic system utility for displaying or setting serial port information. Setserial can reveal and allow you to alter the I/O port and IRQ that a particular serial device is using, and more.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.17
Release:
25.el6
Size:
23 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the setserial package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install setserial
This command will install setserial on the server.
yum remove setserial
This command will un-install setserial on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove setserial, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove setserial
This command will un-install setserial 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 setserial when using the -y flag.
yum update setserial
This command will update setserial to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove setserial, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update setserial
This command will update setserial 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 setserial when using the -y flag.
yum info setserial
This command will show you core information about the setserial package.
yum deplist setserial
This command will show you the dependencies for setserial. 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 setserial
This command will check if there is an update waiting on setserial. 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.