Information about the package, libsodium, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libsodium package is designed for, A fork of networking and cryptography library with compatible APIs.
Package Name:
libsodium
Summary:
A fork of networking and cryptography library with compatible APIs
Description:
Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable library forked from NaCl(networking and cryptography library), with a compatible API. Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.4.5
Release:
3.el6
Size:
145 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ISC
Control the libsodium package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libsodium
This command will install libsodium on the server.
yum remove libsodium
This command will un-install libsodium on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsodium, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libsodium
This command will un-install libsodium 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 libsodium when using the -y flag.
yum update libsodium
This command will update libsodium to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsodium, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libsodium
This command will update libsodium 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 libsodium when using the -y flag.
yum info libsodium
This command will show you core information about the libsodium package.
yum deplist libsodium
This command will show you the dependencies for libsodium. 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 libsodium
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libsodium. 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.