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Information about the package, calendar, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The calendar package is designed for, Reminder utility.


Package Name:

calendar

Summary:

Reminder utility

Description:

The OpenBSD calendar command is a reminder utility. Calendar reads a mix of configuration files and standard calendar databases and then displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomorrow's. The output of the command shows upcoming events for the week.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.25

Release:

8.el6

Size:

107 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD



Handy Yum Commands for calendar


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install calendar

This command will install calendar on the server.

yum remove calendar

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

yum -y remove calendar

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

yum update calendar

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

yum -y update calendar

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

yum info calendar

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

yum deplist calendar

This command will show you the dependencies for calendar. 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 calendar

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