Information about the package, libpng, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpng package is designed for, A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files.
Package Name:
libpng
Summary:
A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files
Description:
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.49
Release:
2.el6_7
Size:
639 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
zlib
Control the libpng package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpng
This command will install libpng on the server.
yum remove libpng
This command will un-install libpng on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpng, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpng
This command will un-install libpng 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update libpng
This command will update libpng to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpng, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpng
This command will update libpng 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info libpng
This command will show you core information about the libpng package.
yum deplist libpng
This command will show you the dependencies for libpng. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpng. 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.