Information about the package, nspr, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nspr package is designed for, Netscape Portable Runtime.
Package Name:
nspr
Summary:
Netscape Portable Runtime
Description:
NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.13.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
271 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
MPLv2.0
Control the nspr package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nspr
This command will install nspr on the server.
yum remove nspr
This command will un-install nspr on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nspr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nspr
This command will un-install nspr 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 nspr when using the -y flag.
yum update nspr
This command will update nspr to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nspr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nspr
This command will update nspr 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 nspr when using the -y flag.
yum info nspr
This command will show you core information about the nspr package.
yum deplist nspr
This command will show you the dependencies for nspr. 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 nspr
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nspr. 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.