Information about the package, cowsay, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cowsay package is designed for, Configurable speaking/thinking cow.
Package Name:
cowsay
Summary:
Configurable speaking/thinking cow
Description:
cowsay is a configurable talking cow, written in Perl. It operates much as the figlet program does, and it written in the same spirit of silliness. It generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures of other animals.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.03
Release:
8.el6
Size:
25 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or Artistic
Control the cowsay package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cowsay
This command will install cowsay on the server.
yum remove cowsay
This command will un-install cowsay on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cowsay, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cowsay
This command will un-install cowsay 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 cowsay when using the -y flag.
yum update cowsay
This command will update cowsay to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cowsay, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cowsay
This command will update cowsay 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 cowsay when using the -y flag.
yum info cowsay
This command will show you core information about the cowsay package.
yum deplist cowsay
This command will show you the dependencies for cowsay. 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 cowsay
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cowsay. 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.