Information about the package, autodownloader, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The autodownloader package is designed for, GUI-tool to automate the download of certain files.
Package Name:
autodownloader
Summary:
GUI-tool to automate the download of certain files
Description:
Some software (usually games) requires certain data files to operate, sometimes these datafiles can be freely downloaded but may not be redistributed and thus cannot be put into so called packages as part of a distro. autodownloader is a tool which can be used as part of a package to automate the download of the needed files. It will prompt the user explaining to him the need of the download and asking if it is ok to make an internet connection, after this it will show the license of the to be downloaded files and last it will do the actual download and md5 verification off these files. This whole process can be configured by the packager through a simple configuration file. Notice that Autodownloader while open source itself, may download files which are not permitted to be (re)distributed unlike most files in Fedora.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.3.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
35 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the autodownloader package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install autodownloader
This command will install autodownloader on the server.
yum remove autodownloader
This command will un-install autodownloader on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove autodownloader, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove autodownloader
This command will un-install autodownloader 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 autodownloader when using the -y flag.
yum update autodownloader
This command will update autodownloader to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove autodownloader, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update autodownloader
This command will update autodownloader 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 autodownloader when using the -y flag.
yum info autodownloader
This command will show you core information about the autodownloader package.
yum deplist autodownloader
This command will show you the dependencies for autodownloader. 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 autodownloader
This command will check if there is an update waiting on autodownloader. 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.