Information about the package, ghc-tar-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ghc-tar-devel package is designed for, Reading, writing and manipulating tar archive files development.
Package Name:
ghc-tar-devel
Summary:
Reading, writing and manipulating tar archive files development
Description:
This library is for working with ".tar" archive files. It can read and write a range of common variations of archive format including V7, USTAR, POSIX and GNU formats. It provides support for packing and unpacking portable archives. This makes it suitable for distribution but not backup because details like file ownership and exact permissions are not preserved. This package contains the development files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.3.2.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
190 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the ghc-tar-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ghc-tar-devel
This command will install ghc-tar-devel on the server.
yum remove ghc-tar-devel
This command will un-install ghc-tar-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghc-tar-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ghc-tar-devel
This command will un-install ghc-tar-devel 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 ghc-tar-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update ghc-tar-devel
This command will update ghc-tar-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghc-tar-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ghc-tar-devel
This command will update ghc-tar-devel 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 ghc-tar-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info ghc-tar-devel
This command will show you core information about the ghc-tar-devel package.
yum deplist ghc-tar-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for ghc-tar-devel. 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 ghc-tar-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ghc-tar-devel. 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.