Information about the package, blt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The blt package is designed for, Widget extension to the Tcl/Tk scripting language.
Package Name:
blt
Summary:
Widget extension to the Tcl/Tk scripting language
Description:
BLT is a very powerful extension to Tk. It adds plotting widgets (graph, barchart and stripchart), hierarchy tree and table, tab notebook, table geometry manager, vector, background program execution, busy utility, eps canvas item, drag and drop facility, bitmap command and miscellaneous commands. Note: this version is stubs enabled and therefore should be compatible with Tcl/Tk versions after and including 8.3.1.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.4
Release:
33.z.el6
Size:
1.0 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the blt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install blt
This command will install blt on the server.
yum remove blt
This command will un-install blt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove blt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove blt
This command will un-install blt 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 blt when using the -y flag.
yum update blt
This command will update blt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove blt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update blt
This command will update blt 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 blt when using the -y flag.
yum info blt
This command will show you core information about the blt package.
yum deplist blt
This command will show you the dependencies for blt. 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 blt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on blt. 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.