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ucl


Information about the package, ucl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ucl package is designed for, Portable lossless data compression library.


Package Name:

ucl

Summary:

Portable lossless data compression library

Description:

UCL is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing *very* fast decompression. Decompression requires no additional memory.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.03

Release:

10.el6

Size:

33 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for ucl


Control the ucl package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install ucl

This command will install ucl on the server.

yum remove ucl

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

yum -y remove ucl

This command will un-install ucl 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 ucl when using the -y flag.

yum update ucl

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

yum -y update ucl

This command will update ucl 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 ucl when using the -y flag.

yum info ucl

This command will show you core information about the ucl package.

yum deplist ucl

This command will show you the dependencies for ucl. 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 ucl

This command will check if there is an update waiting on ucl. 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.