Information about the package, cpio, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cpio package is designed for, A GNU archiving program.
Package Name:
cpio
Summary:
A GNU archiving program
Description:
GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar and POSIX.1 tar. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, so that they are compatible with older cpio programs. When it is extracting files from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order. Install cpio if you need a program to manage file archives.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.10
Release:
13.el6
Size:
635 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the cpio package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cpio
This command will install cpio on the server.
yum remove cpio
This command will un-install cpio on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cpio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cpio
This command will un-install cpio 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 cpio when using the -y flag.
yum update cpio
This command will update cpio to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cpio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cpio
This command will update cpio 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 cpio when using the -y flag.
yum info cpio
This command will show you core information about the cpio package.
yum deplist cpio
This command will show you the dependencies for cpio. 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 cpio
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cpio. 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.