Information about the package, libsmbios-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libsmbios-devel package is designed for, Development headers and archives.
Package Name:
libsmbios-devel
Summary:
Development headers and archives
Description:
Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package contains the headers and .a files necessary to compile new client programs against libsmbios.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.26
Release:
3.el6
Size:
309 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or OSL 2.1
Control the libsmbios-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libsmbios-devel
This command will install libsmbios-devel on the server.
yum remove libsmbios-devel
This command will un-install libsmbios-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsmbios-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libsmbios-devel
This command will un-install libsmbios-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 libsmbios-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libsmbios-devel
This command will update libsmbios-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsmbios-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libsmbios-devel
This command will update libsmbios-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 libsmbios-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libsmbios-devel
This command will show you core information about the libsmbios-devel package.
yum deplist libsmbios-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libsmbios-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 libsmbios-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libsmbios-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.