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opensc


Information about the package, opensc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The opensc package is designed for, Smart card library and applications.


Package Name:

opensc

Summary:

Smart card library and applications

Description:

OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and digital signatures. OpenSC implements the PKCS#11 API so applications supporting this API (such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird) can use it. On the card OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with every software/card that does so, too.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.17.0

Release:

6.el6

Size:

1.0 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for opensc


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install opensc

This command will install opensc on the server.

yum remove opensc

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

yum -y remove opensc

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

yum update opensc

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

yum -y update opensc

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

yum info opensc

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

yum deplist opensc

This command will show you the dependencies for opensc. 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 opensc

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