Information about the package, pcre, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pcre package is designed for, Perl-compatible regular expression library.
Package Name:
pcre
Summary:
Perl-compatible regular expression library
URL:
Description:
Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.8
Release:
7.el6
Size:
517 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD
Control the pcre package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pcre
This command will install pcre on the server.
yum remove pcre
This command will un-install pcre on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcre, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pcre
This command will un-install pcre 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 pcre when using the -y flag.
yum update pcre
This command will update pcre to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcre, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pcre
This command will update pcre 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 pcre when using the -y flag.
yum info pcre
This command will show you core information about the pcre package.
yum deplist pcre
This command will show you the dependencies for pcre. 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 pcre
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pcre. 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.