Information about the package, cloud-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cloud-utils package is designed for, Cloud image management utilities.
Package Name:
cloud-utils
Summary:
Cloud image management utilities
Description:
This package provides a useful set of utilities for managing cloud images. The euca2ools package (a dependency of cloud-utils) provides an Amazon EC2 API compatible set of utilities for bundling kernels, ramdisks, and root filesystems, and uploading them to either EC2 or UEC. The tasks associated with image bundling are often tedious and repetitive. The cloud-utils package provides several scripts that wrap the complicated tasks with a much simpler interface.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.27
Release:
10.el6
Size:
43 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the cloud-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cloud-utils
This command will install cloud-utils on the server.
yum remove cloud-utils
This command will un-install cloud-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cloud-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cloud-utils
This command will un-install cloud-utils 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 cloud-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update cloud-utils
This command will update cloud-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cloud-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cloud-utils
This command will update cloud-utils 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 cloud-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info cloud-utils
This command will show you core information about the cloud-utils package.
yum deplist cloud-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for cloud-utils. 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 cloud-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cloud-utils. 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.