Information about the package, libatomic, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libatomic package is designed for, The GNU Atomic library.
Package Name:
libatomic
Summary:
The GNU Atomic library
URL:
Description:
LGPLv2+ and BSD This package contains the GNU Atomic library which is a GCC support runtime library for atomic operations not supported by hardware.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.1.1
Release:
2.4.1.el6_9
Size:
31 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions and
Control the libatomic package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libatomic
This command will install libatomic on the server.
yum remove libatomic
This command will un-install libatomic on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libatomic, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libatomic
This command will un-install libatomic 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 libatomic when using the -y flag.
yum update libatomic
This command will update libatomic to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libatomic, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libatomic
This command will update libatomic 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 libatomic when using the -y flag.
yum info libatomic
This command will show you core information about the libatomic package.
yum deplist libatomic
This command will show you the dependencies for libatomic. 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 libatomic
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libatomic. 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.