Information about the package, sharutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sharutils package is designed for, The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell.
Package Name:
sharutils
Summary:
The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell
Description:
The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.7
Release:
6.1.el6
Size:
617 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the sharutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install sharutils
This command will install sharutils on the server.
yum remove sharutils
This command will un-install sharutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sharutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove sharutils
This command will un-install sharutils 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 sharutils when using the -y flag.
yum update sharutils
This command will update sharutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sharutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update sharutils
This command will update sharutils 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 sharutils when using the -y flag.
yum info sharutils
This command will show you core information about the sharutils package.
yum deplist sharutils
This command will show you the dependencies for sharutils. 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 sharutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on sharutils. 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.