Information about the package, perl-DBD-XBase, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-DBD-XBase package is designed for, Perl module for reading and writing the dbf files.
Package Name:
perl-DBD-XBase
Summary:
Perl module for reading and writing the dbf files
Description:
This module can read and write XBase database files, known as dbf in dBase and FoxPro world. It also transparently reads memo fields from the dbt, fpt and smt files and works with index files (ndx, ntx, mdx, idx, cdx and SDBM). This module XBase.pm provides simple native interface to XBase files. For DBI compliant database access, see DBD::XBase and DBI modules and their man pages.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.241
Release:
9.el6
Size:
113 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-DBD-XBase package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-DBD-XBase
This command will install perl-DBD-XBase on the server.
yum remove perl-DBD-XBase
This command will un-install perl-DBD-XBase on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-DBD-XBase, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-DBD-XBase
This command will un-install perl-DBD-XBase 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 perl-DBD-XBase when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-DBD-XBase
This command will update perl-DBD-XBase to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-DBD-XBase, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-DBD-XBase
This command will update perl-DBD-XBase 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 perl-DBD-XBase when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-DBD-XBase
This command will show you core information about the perl-DBD-XBase package.
yum deplist perl-DBD-XBase
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-DBD-XBase. 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 perl-DBD-XBase
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-DBD-XBase. 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.