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udunits2


Information about the package, udunits2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The udunits2 package is designed for, A library for manipulating units of physical quantities.


Package Name:

udunits2

Summary:

A library for manipulating units of physical quantities

Description:

The Unidata units utility, udunits2, supports conversion of unit specifications between formatted and binary forms, arithmetic manipulation of unit specifications, and conversion of values between compatible scales of measurement. A unit is the amount by which a physical quantity is measured. For example: Physical Quantity Possible Unit _________________ _____________ time weeks distance centimeters power watts This utility works interactively and has two modes. In one mode, both an input and output unit specification are given, causing the utility to print the conversion between them. In the other mode, only an input unit specification is given. This causes the utility to print the definition -- in standard units -- of the input unit.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.1.19

Release:

1.el6

Size:

183 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT



Handy Yum Commands for udunits2


Control the udunits2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install udunits2

This command will install udunits2 on the server.

yum remove udunits2

This command will un-install udunits2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove udunits2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove udunits2

This command will un-install udunits2 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 udunits2 when using the -y flag.

yum update udunits2

This command will update udunits2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove udunits2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update udunits2

This command will update udunits2 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 udunits2 when using the -y flag.

yum info udunits2

This command will show you core information about the udunits2 package.

yum deplist udunits2

This command will show you the dependencies for udunits2. 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 udunits2

This command will check if there is an update waiting on udunits2. 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.