Information about the package, expect, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The expect package is designed for, A program-script interaction and testing utility.
Package Name:
expect
Summary:
A program-script interaction and testing utility
Description:
Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. This package contains expect and some scripts that use it.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.44.1.15
Release:
5.el6_4
Size:
553 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the expect package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install expect
This command will install expect on the server.
yum remove expect
This command will un-install expect on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove expect, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove expect
This command will un-install expect 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 expect when using the -y flag.
yum update expect
This command will update expect to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove expect, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update expect
This command will update expect 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 expect when using the -y flag.
yum info expect
This command will show you core information about the expect package.
yum deplist expect
This command will show you the dependencies for expect. 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 expect
This command will check if there is an update waiting on expect. 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.