Information about the package, libowfat-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libowfat-devel package is designed for, Reimplementation of libdjb.
Package Name:
libowfat-devel
Summary:
Reimplementation of libdjb
Description:
This library is a reimplementation of libdjb, which means that it provides Daniel Bernstein's interfaces (with some extensions). It contains wrappers around memory allocation, buffered I/O, routines for formatting and scanning, a full DNS resolver, several socket routines, wrappers for socket functions, mkfifo, opendir, wait, and an abstraction around errno. It also includes wrappers for Unix signal functions and a layer of mmap and sendfile. The library is available for use with the diet libc.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.28
Release:
4.el6
Size:
261 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the libowfat-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libowfat-devel
This command will install libowfat-devel on the server.
yum remove libowfat-devel
This command will un-install libowfat-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libowfat-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libowfat-devel
This command will un-install libowfat-devel 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 libowfat-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libowfat-devel
This command will update libowfat-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libowfat-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libowfat-devel
This command will update libowfat-devel 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 libowfat-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libowfat-devel
This command will show you core information about the libowfat-devel package.
yum deplist libowfat-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libowfat-devel. 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 libowfat-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libowfat-devel. 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.