Information about the package, centos-release-xen-46, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The centos-release-xen-46 package is designed for, CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 4.6.
Package Name:
centos-release-xen-46
Summary:
CentOS Virt Sig Xen repo configs for Xen 4.6
Description:
yum configs and scripts to allow easy installation of Xen 4.6 on CentOS. Multiple versions of centos-release-xen-NN can be installed at the same time; by default yum will choose the latest version of xen available across all repositories. This package will not update automatically to newer Xen releases; \if you don\'t have centos-release-xen installed, you will have to manually install the newer version of centos-release-xen-NN to get the newer version. If this is not the behavior you want, please install the generic package (centos-release-xen).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8
Release:
3.el6
Size:
6.4 k
Repository:
extras
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL
Control the centos-release-xen-46 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install centos-release-xen-46
This command will install centos-release-xen-46 on the server.
yum remove centos-release-xen-46
This command will un-install centos-release-xen-46 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove centos-release-xen-46, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove centos-release-xen-46
This command will un-install centos-release-xen-46 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 centos-release-xen-46 when using the -y flag.
yum update centos-release-xen-46
This command will update centos-release-xen-46 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove centos-release-xen-46, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update centos-release-xen-46
This command will update centos-release-xen-46 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 centos-release-xen-46 when using the -y flag.
yum info centos-release-xen-46
This command will show you core information about the centos-release-xen-46 package.
yum deplist centos-release-xen-46
This command will show you the dependencies for centos-release-xen-46. 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 centos-release-xen-46
This command will check if there is an update waiting on centos-release-xen-46. 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.