Information about the package, libtiff-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libtiff-devel package is designed for, Development tools for programs which will use the libtiff library.
Package Name:
libtiff-devel
Summary:
Development tools for programs which will use the libtiff library
Description:
This package contains the header files and documentation necessary for developing programs which will manipulate TIFF format image files using the libtiff library. If you need to develop programs which will manipulate TIFF format image files, you should install this package. You'll also need to install the libtiff package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.9.4
Release:
21.el6_8
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
libtiff
Control the libtiff-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libtiff-devel
This command will install libtiff-devel on the server.
yum remove libtiff-devel
This command will un-install libtiff-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtiff-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libtiff-devel
This command will un-install libtiff-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 libtiff-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libtiff-devel
This command will update libtiff-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtiff-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libtiff-devel
This command will update libtiff-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 libtiff-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libtiff-devel
This command will show you core information about the libtiff-devel package.
yum deplist libtiff-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libtiff-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 libtiff-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libtiff-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.