Information about the package, squid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The squid package is designed for, The Squid proxy caching server.
Package Name:
squid
Summary:
The Squid proxy caching server
Description:
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data (ftpget), and some management and client tools.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.1.23
Release:
24.el6
Size:
1.8 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and (LGPLv2+ and Public Domain)
Control the squid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install squid
This command will install squid on the server.
yum remove squid
This command will un-install squid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove squid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove squid
This command will un-install squid 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 squid when using the -y flag.
yum update squid
This command will update squid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove squid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update squid
This command will update squid 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 squid when using the -y flag.
yum info squid
This command will show you core information about the squid package.
yum deplist squid
This command will show you the dependencies for squid. 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 squid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on squid. 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.