Information about the package, libmetalink, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libmetalink package is designed for, Metalink library written in C.
Package Name:
libmetalink
Summary:
Metalink library written in C
Description:
libmetalink is a Metalink C library. It adds Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files to programs written in C.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.1.3
Release:
1.el6
Size:
24 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the libmetalink package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libmetalink
This command will install libmetalink on the server.
yum remove libmetalink
This command will un-install libmetalink on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmetalink, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libmetalink
This command will un-install libmetalink 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 libmetalink when using the -y flag.
yum update libmetalink
This command will update libmetalink to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmetalink, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libmetalink
This command will update libmetalink 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 libmetalink when using the -y flag.
yum info libmetalink
This command will show you core information about the libmetalink package.
yum deplist libmetalink
This command will show you the dependencies for libmetalink. 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 libmetalink
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libmetalink. 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.