Information about the package, pth, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pth package is designed for, The GNU Portable Threads library.
Package Name:
pth
Summary:
The GNU Portable Threads library
Description:
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.7
Release:
9.3.el6
Size:
256 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the pth package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pth
This command will install pth on the server.
yum remove pth
This command will un-install pth on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pth, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pth
This command will un-install pth 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 pth when using the -y flag.
yum update pth
This command will update pth to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pth, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pth
This command will update pth 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 pth when using the -y flag.
yum info pth
This command will show you core information about the pth package.
yum deplist pth
This command will show you the dependencies for pth. 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 pth
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pth. 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.