Information about the package, jbig2dec, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The jbig2dec package is designed for, A decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format.
Package Name:
jbig2dec
Summary:
A decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format
Description:
jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format. JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression ratios on the order of 100:1.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.11
Release:
8.el6
Size:
28 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the jbig2dec package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install jbig2dec
This command will install jbig2dec on the server.
yum remove jbig2dec
This command will un-install jbig2dec on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove jbig2dec, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove jbig2dec
This command will un-install jbig2dec 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 jbig2dec when using the -y flag.
yum update jbig2dec
This command will update jbig2dec to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove jbig2dec, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update jbig2dec
This command will update jbig2dec 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 jbig2dec when using the -y flag.
yum info jbig2dec
This command will show you core information about the jbig2dec package.
yum deplist jbig2dec
This command will show you the dependencies for jbig2dec. 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 jbig2dec
This command will check if there is an update waiting on jbig2dec. 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.