Information about the package, petsc-doc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The petsc-doc package is designed for, Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation.
Package Name:
petsc-doc
Summary:
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
Description:
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation. PDF and HTML documentation files.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.7.7
Release:
1.el6
Size:
3.6 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the petsc-doc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install petsc-doc
This command will install petsc-doc on the server.
yum remove petsc-doc
This command will un-install petsc-doc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove petsc-doc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove petsc-doc
This command will un-install petsc-doc 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 petsc-doc when using the -y flag.
yum update petsc-doc
This command will update petsc-doc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove petsc-doc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update petsc-doc
This command will update petsc-doc 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 petsc-doc when using the -y flag.
yum info petsc-doc
This command will show you core information about the petsc-doc package.
yum deplist petsc-doc
This command will show you the dependencies for petsc-doc. 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 petsc-doc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on petsc-doc. 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.