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perl-X11-Protocol


Information about the package, perl-X11-Protocol, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-X11-Protocol package is designed for, X11-Protocol - Raw interface to X Window System servers.


Package Name:

perl-X11-Protocol

Summary:

X11-Protocol - Raw interface to X Window System servers

Description:

X11::Protocol is a client-side interface to the X11 Protocol (see X(1) for information about X11), allowing perl programs to display windows and graphics on X11 servers. A full description of the protocol is beyond the scope of this documentation; for complete information, see the I<X Window System Protocol, X Version 11>, available as Postscript or *roff source from C<ftp://ftp.x.org>, or I<Volume 0: X Protocol Reference Manual> of O'Reilly & Associates's series of books about X (ISBN 1-56592-083-X, C<http://www.oreilly.com>), which contains most of the same information.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.56

Release:

4.el6

Size:

151 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPL+ or Artistic



Handy Yum Commands for perl-X11-Protocol


Control the perl-X11-Protocol package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install perl-X11-Protocol

This command will install perl-X11-Protocol on the server.

yum remove perl-X11-Protocol

This command will un-install perl-X11-Protocol on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-X11-Protocol, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove perl-X11-Protocol

This command will un-install perl-X11-Protocol 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-X11-Protocol when using the -y flag.

yum update perl-X11-Protocol

This command will update perl-X11-Protocol to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-X11-Protocol, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update perl-X11-Protocol

This command will update perl-X11-Protocol 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-X11-Protocol when using the -y flag.

yum info perl-X11-Protocol

This command will show you core information about the perl-X11-Protocol package.

yum deplist perl-X11-Protocol

This command will show you the dependencies for perl-X11-Protocol. 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-X11-Protocol

This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-X11-Protocol. 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.