Information about the package, libXcompext, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libXcompext package is designed for, NX protocol compression extensions library.
Package Name:
libXcompext
Summary:
NX protocol compression extensions library
URL:
Description:
NX is a software suite from NoMachine which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one. This package provides the library to support additional features to the core NX library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.5.0.32
Release:
3.el6
Size:
37 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the libXcompext package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libXcompext
This command will install libXcompext on the server.
yum remove libXcompext
This command will un-install libXcompext on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libXcompext, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libXcompext
This command will un-install libXcompext 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 libXcompext when using the -y flag.
yum update libXcompext
This command will update libXcompext to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libXcompext, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libXcompext
This command will update libXcompext 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 libXcompext when using the -y flag.
yum info libXcompext
This command will show you core information about the libXcompext package.
yum deplist libXcompext
This command will show you the dependencies for libXcompext. 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 libXcompext
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libXcompext. 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.