Information about the package, jansson, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The jansson package is designed for, C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data.
Package Name:
jansson
Summary:
C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data
Description:
Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.11
Release:
1.el6
Size:
37 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the jansson package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install jansson
This command will install jansson on the server.
yum remove jansson
This command will un-install jansson on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove jansson, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove jansson
This command will un-install jansson 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 jansson when using the -y flag.
yum update jansson
This command will update jansson to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove jansson, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update jansson
This command will update jansson 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 jansson when using the -y flag.
yum info jansson
This command will show you core information about the jansson package.
yum deplist jansson
This command will show you the dependencies for jansson. 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 jansson
This command will check if there is an update waiting on jansson. 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.