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lcm


Information about the package, lcm, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lcm package is designed for, Utilities for lightweight communications and marshaling.


Package Name:

lcm

Summary:

Utilities for lightweight communications and marshaling

Description:

LCM is a library for message passing and data marshaling targeted at real time systems where high-bandwidth and low latency are critical. It provides a publish/subscribe message passing model and a XDR-style message specification language with bindings for applications in C, Java and Python.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.9.0

Release:

5.el6

Size:

115 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for lcm


Control the lcm package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install lcm

This command will install lcm on the server.

yum remove lcm

This command will un-install lcm on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lcm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove lcm

This command will un-install lcm 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 lcm when using the -y flag.

yum update lcm

This command will update lcm to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lcm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update lcm

This command will update lcm 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 lcm when using the -y flag.

yum info lcm

This command will show you core information about the lcm package.

yum deplist lcm

This command will show you the dependencies for lcm. 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 lcm

This command will check if there is an update waiting on lcm. 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.