Information about the package, libacl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libacl package is designed for, Dynamic library for access control list support.
Package Name:
libacl
Summary:
Dynamic library for access control list support
Description:
This package contains the libacl.so dynamic library which contains the POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17 functions for manipulating access control lists.
Architecture:
i686
Version:
2.2.49
Release:
7.el6_9.1
Size:
24 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libacl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libacl
This command will install libacl on the server.
yum remove libacl
This command will un-install libacl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libacl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libacl
This command will un-install libacl 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 libacl when using the -y flag.
yum update libacl
This command will update libacl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libacl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libacl
This command will update libacl 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 libacl when using the -y flag.
yum info libacl
This command will show you core information about the libacl package.
yum deplist libacl
This command will show you the dependencies for libacl. 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 libacl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libacl. 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.