Information about the package, libpng-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpng-devel package is designed for, Development tools for programs to manipulate PNG image format.
Package Name:
libpng-devel
Summary:
Development tools for programs to manipulate PNG image format
Description:
The libpng-devel package contains header files and documentation necessary for developing programs using the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) library. If you want to develop programs which will manipulate PNG image format files, you should install libpng-devel. You'll also need to install the libpng package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.49
Release:
2.el6_7
Size:
262 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
zlib
Control the libpng-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpng-devel
This command will install libpng-devel on the server.
yum remove libpng-devel
This command will un-install libpng-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpng-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpng-devel
This command will un-install libpng-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 libpng-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libpng-devel
This command will update libpng-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpng-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpng-devel
This command will update libpng-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 libpng-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libpng-devel
This command will show you core information about the libpng-devel package.
yum deplist libpng-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libpng-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 libpng-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpng-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.