Information about the package, cyrus-sasl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cyrus-sasl package is designed for, The Cyrus SASL library.
Package Name:
cyrus-sasl
Summary:
The Cyrus SASL library
Description:
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.1.23
Release:
15.el6_6.2
Size:
130 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
BSD
Control the cyrus-sasl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cyrus-sasl
This command will install cyrus-sasl on the server.
yum remove cyrus-sasl
This command will un-install cyrus-sasl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cyrus-sasl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cyrus-sasl
This command will un-install cyrus-sasl 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 cyrus-sasl when using the -y flag.
yum update cyrus-sasl
This command will update cyrus-sasl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cyrus-sasl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cyrus-sasl
This command will update cyrus-sasl 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 cyrus-sasl when using the -y flag.
yum info cyrus-sasl
This command will show you core information about the cyrus-sasl package.
yum deplist cyrus-sasl
This command will show you the dependencies for cyrus-sasl. 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 cyrus-sasl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cyrus-sasl. 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.