Information about the package, fabric, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fabric package is designed for, A simple Pythonic remote deployment tool.
Package Name:
fabric
Summary:
A simple Pythonic remote deployment tool
Description:
Fabric is a simple Pythonic remote deployment tool which is designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.6.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
135 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the fabric package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fabric
This command will install fabric on the server.
yum remove fabric
This command will un-install fabric on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fabric, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fabric
This command will un-install fabric 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 fabric when using the -y flag.
yum update fabric
This command will update fabric to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fabric, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fabric
This command will update fabric 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 fabric when using the -y flag.
yum info fabric
This command will show you core information about the fabric package.
yum deplist fabric
This command will show you the dependencies for fabric. 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 fabric
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fabric. 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.