Information about the package, perl-libwhisker2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-libwhisker2 package is designed for, Perl module geared specifically for HTTP testing.
Package Name:
perl-libwhisker2
Summary:
Perl module geared specifically for HTTP testing
Description:
Libwhisker is a Perl library useful for HTTP testing scripts. It contains a pure-Perl implementation of functionality found in the LWP, URI, Digest::MD5, Digest::MD4, Data::Dumper, Authen::NTLM, HTML::Parser, HTML::FormParser, CGI::Upload, MIME::Base64, and GetOpt::Std modules. Libwhisker is designed to be portable (a single perl file), fast (general benchmarks show libwhisker is faster than LWP), and flexible (great care was taken to ensure the library does exactly what you want to do, even if it means breaking the protocol).
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.5
Release:
1.el6
Size:
88 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the perl-libwhisker2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-libwhisker2
This command will install perl-libwhisker2 on the server.
yum remove perl-libwhisker2
This command will un-install perl-libwhisker2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-libwhisker2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-libwhisker2
This command will un-install perl-libwhisker2 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-libwhisker2 when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-libwhisker2
This command will update perl-libwhisker2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-libwhisker2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-libwhisker2
This command will update perl-libwhisker2 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-libwhisker2 when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-libwhisker2
This command will show you core information about the perl-libwhisker2 package.
yum deplist perl-libwhisker2
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-libwhisker2. 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-libwhisker2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-libwhisker2. 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.