Information about the package, antiword, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The antiword package is designed for, MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter.
Package Name:
antiword
Summary:
MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter
Description:
Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, BeOS and RISC OS. It converts the documents from Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to ASCII and Postscript. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.37
Release:
17.el6
Size:
149 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the antiword package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install antiword
This command will install antiword on the server.
yum remove antiword
This command will un-install antiword on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove antiword, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove antiword
This command will un-install antiword 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 antiword when using the -y flag.
yum update antiword
This command will update antiword to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove antiword, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update antiword
This command will update antiword 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 antiword when using the -y flag.
yum info antiword
This command will show you core information about the antiword package.
yum deplist antiword
This command will show you the dependencies for antiword. 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 antiword
This command will check if there is an update waiting on antiword. 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.