Information about the package, edac-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The edac-utils package is designed for, Userspace helper for kernel EDAC drivers.
Package Name:
edac-utils
Summary:
Userspace helper for kernel EDAC drivers
Description:
EDAC is the current set of drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as a library and utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.9
Release:
16.el6
Size:
41 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the edac-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install edac-utils
This command will install edac-utils on the server.
yum remove edac-utils
This command will un-install edac-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove edac-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove edac-utils
This command will un-install edac-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 edac-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update edac-utils
This command will update edac-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove edac-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update edac-utils
This command will update edac-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 edac-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info edac-utils
This command will show you core information about the edac-utils package.
yum deplist edac-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for edac-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 edac-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on edac-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.