Information about the package, cabextract, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cabextract package is designed for, Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives.
Package Name:
cabextract
Summary:
Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives
Description:
cabextract is a program which can extract files from cabinet (.cab) archives.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.5
Release:
1.el6
Size:
41 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the cabextract package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cabextract
This command will install cabextract on the server.
yum remove cabextract
This command will un-install cabextract on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cabextract, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cabextract
This command will un-install cabextract 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 cabextract when using the -y flag.
yum update cabextract
This command will update cabextract to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cabextract, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cabextract
This command will update cabextract 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 cabextract when using the -y flag.
yum info cabextract
This command will show you core information about the cabextract package.
yum deplist cabextract
This command will show you the dependencies for cabextract. 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 cabextract
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cabextract. 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.