Information about the package, desktop-file-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The desktop-file-utils package is designed for, Utilities for manipulating .desktop files.
Package Name:
desktop-file-utils
Summary:
Utilities for manipulating .desktop files
Description:
.desktop files are used to describe an application for inclusion in GNOME or KDE menus. This package contains desktop-file-validate which checks whether a .desktop file complies with the specification at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/, and desktop-file-install which installs a desktop file to the standard directory, optionally fixing it up in the process.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.15
Release:
9.el6
Size:
47 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the desktop-file-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install desktop-file-utils
This command will install desktop-file-utils on the server.
yum remove desktop-file-utils
This command will un-install desktop-file-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove desktop-file-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove desktop-file-utils
This command will un-install desktop-file-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 desktop-file-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update desktop-file-utils
This command will update desktop-file-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove desktop-file-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update desktop-file-utils
This command will update desktop-file-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 desktop-file-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info desktop-file-utils
This command will show you core information about the desktop-file-utils package.
yum deplist desktop-file-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for desktop-file-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 desktop-file-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on desktop-file-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.