Information about the package, coreutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The coreutils package is designed for, A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts.
Package Name:
coreutils
Summary:
A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description:
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8.4
Release:
46.el6
Size:
12 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the coreutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install coreutils
This command will install coreutils on the server.
yum remove coreutils
This command will un-install coreutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove coreutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove coreutils
This command will un-install coreutils 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 coreutils when using the -y flag.
yum update coreutils
This command will update coreutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove coreutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update coreutils
This command will update coreutils 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 coreutils when using the -y flag.
yum info coreutils
This command will show you core information about the coreutils package.
yum deplist coreutils
This command will show you the dependencies for coreutils. 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 coreutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on coreutils. 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.