Information about the package, libident, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libident package is designed for, New LibIdent C library.
Package Name:
libident
Summary:
New LibIdent C library
Description:
LibIdent is a small C library for interfacing with RFC 1413 Identification protocol servers, which are used for identifying users. LibIdent supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses transparently. It is meant to be used by daemons to try to authenticate users using the Ident protocol. For this to work, users need to have an Ident server running on the system from which they are connected.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.32
Release:
4.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the libident package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libident
This command will install libident on the server.
yum remove libident
This command will un-install libident on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libident, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libident
This command will un-install libident 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 libident when using the -y flag.
yum update libident
This command will update libident to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libident, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libident
This command will update libident 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 libident when using the -y flag.
yum info libident
This command will show you core information about the libident package.
yum deplist libident
This command will show you the dependencies for libident. 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 libident
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libident. 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.