Information about the package, libffi-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libffi-devel package is designed for, Development files for libffi.
Package Name:
libffi-devel
Summary:
Development files for libffi
Description:
The libffi-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use libffi.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0.5
Release:
3.2.el6
Size:
21 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD
Control the libffi-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libffi-devel
This command will install libffi-devel on the server.
yum remove libffi-devel
This command will un-install libffi-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libffi-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libffi-devel
This command will un-install libffi-devel 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 libffi-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libffi-devel
This command will update libffi-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libffi-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libffi-devel
This command will update libffi-devel 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 libffi-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libffi-devel
This command will show you core information about the libffi-devel package.
yum deplist libffi-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libffi-devel. 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 libffi-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libffi-devel. 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.