Information about the package, pkgwat, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pkgwat package is designed for, CLI tool for querying the fedora packages webapp.
Package Name:
pkgwat
Summary:
CLI tool for querying the fedora packages webapp
Description:
Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying the fedora packages webapp. https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ You can make its search even better by helping us tag packages. https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.11
Release:
1.el6
Size:
19 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the pkgwat package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pkgwat
This command will install pkgwat on the server.
yum remove pkgwat
This command will un-install pkgwat on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pkgwat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pkgwat
This command will un-install pkgwat 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 pkgwat when using the -y flag.
yum update pkgwat
This command will update pkgwat to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pkgwat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pkgwat
This command will update pkgwat 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 pkgwat when using the -y flag.
yum info pkgwat
This command will show you core information about the pkgwat package.
yum deplist pkgwat
This command will show you the dependencies for pkgwat. 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 pkgwat
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pkgwat. 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.