Information about the package, giflib, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The giflib package is designed for, Library for manipulating GIF format image files.
Package Name:
giflib
Summary:
Library for manipulating GIF format image files
Description:
The giflib package contains a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF format image files. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif, the library which supported uncompressed GIFs while the Unisys LZW patent was in effect.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.1.6
Release:
3.1.el6
Size:
80 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
MIT
Control the giflib package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install giflib
This command will install giflib on the server.
yum remove giflib
This command will un-install giflib on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove giflib, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove giflib
This command will un-install giflib 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 giflib when using the -y flag.
yum update giflib
This command will update giflib to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove giflib, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update giflib
This command will update giflib 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 giflib when using the -y flag.
yum info giflib
This command will show you core information about the giflib package.
yum deplist giflib
This command will show you the dependencies for giflib. 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 giflib
This command will check if there is an update waiting on giflib. 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.