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mg


Information about the package, mg, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mg package is designed for, Tiny Emacs-like editor.


Package Name:

mg

Summary:

Tiny Emacs-like editor

Description:

mg is a tiny, mostly public-domain Emacs-like editor included in the base OpenBSD system. It is compatible with Emacs because there shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than Emacs or vi.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

20141007

Release:

1.el6

Size:

100 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD and ISC and MirOS



Handy Yum Commands for mg


Control the mg package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install mg

This command will install mg on the server.

yum remove mg

This command will un-install mg on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mg, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove mg

This command will un-install mg 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 mg when using the -y flag.

yum update mg

This command will update mg to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mg, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update mg

This command will update mg 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 mg when using the -y flag.

yum info mg

This command will show you core information about the mg package.

yum deplist mg

This command will show you the dependencies for mg. 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 mg

This command will check if there is an update waiting on mg. 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.