Information about the package, libblkid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libblkid package is designed for, Block device ID library.
Package Name:
libblkid
Summary:
Block device ID library
Description:
This is block device identification library, part of util-linux-ng.
Architecture:
i686
Version:
2.17.2
Release:
12.28.el6_9.2
Size:
123 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libblkid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libblkid
This command will install libblkid on the server.
yum remove libblkid
This command will un-install libblkid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libblkid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libblkid
This command will un-install libblkid 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 libblkid when using the -y flag.
yum update libblkid
This command will update libblkid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libblkid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libblkid
This command will update libblkid 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 libblkid when using the -y flag.
yum info libblkid
This command will show you core information about the libblkid package.
yum deplist libblkid
This command will show you the dependencies for libblkid. 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 libblkid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libblkid. 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.