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vidalia


Information about the package, vidalia, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The vidalia package is designed for, GUI controller for the Tor Onion Routing Network.


Package Name:

vidalia

Summary:

GUI controller for the Tor Onion Routing Network

Description:

Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor, built using the Qt framework. Vidalia allows you to start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor's bandwidth usage. Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by helping you setup a Tor server, if you wish.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.2.20

Release:

1.el6

Size:

2.5 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for vidalia


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install vidalia

This command will install vidalia on the server.

yum remove vidalia

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

yum -y remove vidalia

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

yum update vidalia

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

yum -y update vidalia

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

yum info vidalia

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

yum deplist vidalia

This command will show you the dependencies for vidalia. 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 vidalia

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