Information about the package, glibc-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The glibc-utils package is designed for, Development utilities from GNU C library.
Package Name:
glibc-utils
Summary:
Development utilities from GNU C library
Description:
The glibc-utils package contains memusage, a memory usage profiler, mtrace, a memory leak tracer and xtrace, a function call tracer which can be helpful during program debugging. If unsure if you need this, don't install this package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.12
Release:
1.209.el6_9.2
Size:
174 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Control the glibc-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install glibc-utils
This command will install glibc-utils on the server.
yum remove glibc-utils
This command will un-install glibc-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glibc-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove glibc-utils
This command will un-install glibc-utils 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 glibc-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update glibc-utils
This command will update glibc-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glibc-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update glibc-utils
This command will update glibc-utils 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 glibc-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info glibc-utils
This command will show you core information about the glibc-utils package.
yum deplist glibc-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for glibc-utils. 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 glibc-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on glibc-utils. 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.