Information about the package, rubygem-ffi, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rubygem-ffi package is designed for, FFI Extensions for Ruby.
Package Name:
rubygem-ffi
Summary:
FFI Extensions for Ruby
Description:
Ruby-FFI is a ruby extension for programmatically loading dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions from Ruby code. Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby and JRuby. Discover why should you write your next extension using Ruby-FFI here[http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/why-use-ffi].
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.9
Release:
10.el6
Size:
985 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3
Control the rubygem-ffi package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rubygem-ffi
This command will install rubygem-ffi on the server.
yum remove rubygem-ffi
This command will un-install rubygem-ffi on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygem-ffi, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rubygem-ffi
This command will un-install rubygem-ffi 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 rubygem-ffi when using the -y flag.
yum update rubygem-ffi
This command will update rubygem-ffi to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygem-ffi, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rubygem-ffi
This command will update rubygem-ffi 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 rubygem-ffi when using the -y flag.
yum info rubygem-ffi
This command will show you core information about the rubygem-ffi package.
yum deplist rubygem-ffi
This command will show you the dependencies for rubygem-ffi. 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 rubygem-ffi
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rubygem-ffi. 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.