Information about the package, ca-certificates, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ca-certificates package is designed for, The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle.
Package Name:
ca-certificates
Summary:
The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle
Description:
This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2017.2.14
Release:
65.0.1.el6_9
Size:
3.1 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the ca-certificates package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ca-certificates
This command will install ca-certificates on the server.
yum remove ca-certificates
This command will un-install ca-certificates on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ca-certificates, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ca-certificates
This command will un-install ca-certificates 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 ca-certificates when using the -y flag.
yum update ca-certificates
This command will update ca-certificates to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ca-certificates, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ca-certificates
This command will update ca-certificates 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 ca-certificates when using the -y flag.
yum info ca-certificates
This command will show you core information about the ca-certificates package.
yum deplist ca-certificates
This command will show you the dependencies for ca-certificates. 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 ca-certificates
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ca-certificates. 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.