Information about the package, dpkg, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dpkg package is designed for, Package maintenance system for Debian Linux.
Package Name:
dpkg
Summary:
Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
Description:
This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. This package also contains the programs dpkg which used to handle the installation and removal of packages on a Debian system. This package also contains dselect, an interface for managing the installation and removal of packages on the system. dpkg and dselect will certainly be non-functional on a rpm-based system because packages dependencies will likely be unmet.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.16.18
Release:
2.el6
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and Public Domain and BSD
Control the dpkg package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dpkg
This command will install dpkg on the server.
yum remove dpkg
This command will un-install dpkg on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dpkg, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dpkg
This command will un-install dpkg 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 dpkg when using the -y flag.
yum update dpkg
This command will update dpkg to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dpkg, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dpkg
This command will update dpkg 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 dpkg when using the -y flag.
yum info dpkg
This command will show you core information about the dpkg package.
yum deplist dpkg
This command will show you the dependencies for dpkg. 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 dpkg
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dpkg. 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.