Information about the package, lksctp-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lksctp-tools package is designed for, User-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP.
Package Name:
lksctp-tools
Summary:
User-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP
Description:
This is the lksctp-tools package for Linux Kernel SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) Reference Implementation. This package is intended to supplement the Linux Kernel SCTP Reference Implementation now available in the Linux kernel source tree in versions 2.5.36 and following. For more information on LKSCTP see the package documentation README file, section titled "LKSCTP - Linux Kernel SCTP." This package contains the base run-time library and command-line tools.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.10
Release:
7.el6
Size:
206 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2 and BSD
Control the lksctp-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install lksctp-tools
This command will install lksctp-tools on the server.
yum remove lksctp-tools
This command will un-install lksctp-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lksctp-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove lksctp-tools
This command will un-install lksctp-tools 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 lksctp-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update lksctp-tools
This command will update lksctp-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lksctp-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update lksctp-tools
This command will update lksctp-tools 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 lksctp-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info lksctp-tools
This command will show you core information about the lksctp-tools package.
yum deplist lksctp-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for lksctp-tools. 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 lksctp-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on lksctp-tools. 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.