Information about the package, libmodbus, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libmodbus package is designed for, A Modbus library.
Package Name:
libmodbus
Summary:
A Modbus library
Description:
libmodbus is a C library designed to provide a fast and robust implementation of the Modbus protocol. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, QNX and Windows. This package contains the libmodbus shared library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0.5
Release:
2.el6
Size:
45 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libmodbus package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libmodbus
This command will install libmodbus on the server.
yum remove libmodbus
This command will un-install libmodbus on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmodbus, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libmodbus
This command will un-install libmodbus 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 libmodbus when using the -y flag.
yum update libmodbus
This command will update libmodbus to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libmodbus, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libmodbus
This command will update libmodbus 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 libmodbus when using the -y flag.
yum info libmodbus
This command will show you core information about the libmodbus package.
yum deplist libmodbus
This command will show you the dependencies for libmodbus. 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 libmodbus
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libmodbus. 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.