Information about the package, gnome-libs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gnome-libs package is designed for, The main GNOME1 libraries.
Package Name:
gnome-libs
Summary:
The main GNOME1 libraries
Description:
advertising) GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs package includes libraries that are needed to run GNOME 1 applications.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.2
Release:
16.el6
Size:
946 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+ and BSD with advertising and (LGPLv2+ and BSD with
Control the gnome-libs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gnome-libs
This command will install gnome-libs on the server.
yum remove gnome-libs
This command will un-install gnome-libs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gnome-libs
This command will un-install gnome-libs 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 gnome-libs when using the -y flag.
yum update gnome-libs
This command will update gnome-libs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gnome-libs
This command will update gnome-libs 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 gnome-libs when using the -y flag.
yum info gnome-libs
This command will show you core information about the gnome-libs package.
yum deplist gnome-libs
This command will show you the dependencies for gnome-libs. 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 gnome-libs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gnome-libs. 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.