Information about the package, halibut, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The halibut package is designed for, TeX-like software manual tool.
Package Name:
halibut
Summary:
TeX-like software manual tool
Description:
Halibut is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs a variety of formats, planned to include text, HTML, Texinfo, Windows Help, Windows HTMLHelp, PostScript and PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0
Release:
2.20100504svn8934.el6
Size:
533 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the halibut package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install halibut
This command will install halibut on the server.
yum remove halibut
This command will un-install halibut on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove halibut, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove halibut
This command will un-install halibut 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 halibut when using the -y flag.
yum update halibut
This command will update halibut to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove halibut, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update halibut
This command will update halibut 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 halibut when using the -y flag.
yum info halibut
This command will show you core information about the halibut package.
yum deplist halibut
This command will show you the dependencies for halibut. 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 halibut
This command will check if there is an update waiting on halibut. 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.