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leafpad


Information about the package, leafpad, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The leafpad package is designed for, GTK+ based simple text editor.


Package Name:

leafpad

Summary:

GTK+ based simple text editor

Description:

Leafpad is a GTK+ based simple text editor. The user interface is similar to Notepad. It aims to be lighter than GEdit and KWrite, and to be as useful as them.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.8.18.1

Release:

1.el6

Size:

95 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for leafpad


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install leafpad

This command will install leafpad on the server.

yum remove leafpad

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

yum -y remove leafpad

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

yum update leafpad

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

yum -y update leafpad

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

yum info leafpad

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

yum deplist leafpad

This command will show you the dependencies for leafpad. 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 leafpad

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