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teckit


Information about the package, teckit, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The teckit package is designed for, Conversion library and mapping compiler.


Package Name:

teckit

Summary:

Conversion library and mapping compiler

Description:

TECkit is a low-level toolkit intended to be used by other applications that need to perform encoding conversions (e.g., when importing legacy data into a Unicode-based application). The primary component of the TECkit package is therefore a library that performs conversions; this is the "TECkit engine". The engine relies on mapping tables in a specific binary format (for which documentation is available); there is a compiler that creates such tables from a human-readable mapping description (a simple text file).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.5.1

Release:

4.1.el6

Size:

275 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ or CPL



Handy Yum Commands for teckit


Control the teckit package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install teckit

This command will install teckit on the server.

yum remove teckit

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

yum -y remove teckit

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

yum update teckit

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

yum -y update teckit

This command will update teckit 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 teckit when using the -y flag.

yum info teckit

This command will show you core information about the teckit package.

yum deplist teckit

This command will show you the dependencies for teckit. 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 teckit

This command will check if there is an update waiting on teckit. 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.