Information about the package, elfutils-libelf-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The elfutils-libelf-devel package is designed for, Development support for libelf.
Package Name:
elfutils-libelf-devel
Summary:
Development support for libelf
Description:
The elfutils-libelf-devel package contains the libraries to create applications for handling compiled objects. libelf allows you to access the internals of the ELF object file format, so you can see the different sections of an ELF file.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.164
Release:
2.el6
Size:
32 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or LGPLv3+
Control the elfutils-libelf-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will install elfutils-libelf-devel on the server.
yum remove elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will un-install elfutils-libelf-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove elfutils-libelf-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will un-install elfutils-libelf-devel 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 elfutils-libelf-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will update elfutils-libelf-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove elfutils-libelf-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will update elfutils-libelf-devel 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 elfutils-libelf-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will show you core information about the elfutils-libelf-devel package.
yum deplist elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for elfutils-libelf-devel. 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 elfutils-libelf-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on elfutils-libelf-devel. 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.