Information about the package, liboath, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The liboath package is designed for, Library for OATH handling.
Package Name:
liboath
Summary:
Library for OATH handling
Description:
OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC4226) and the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC6238).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.2
Release:
5.el6
Size:
33 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the liboath package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install liboath
This command will install liboath on the server.
yum remove liboath
This command will un-install liboath on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove liboath, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove liboath
This command will un-install liboath 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 liboath when using the -y flag.
yum update liboath
This command will update liboath to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove liboath, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update liboath
This command will update liboath 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 liboath when using the -y flag.
yum info liboath
This command will show you core information about the liboath package.
yum deplist liboath
This command will show you the dependencies for liboath. 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 liboath
This command will check if there is an update waiting on liboath. 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.