Information about the package, elfutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The elfutils package is designed for, A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects.
Package Name:
elfutils
Summary:
A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
Description:
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack (to show backtraces), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.164
Release:
2.el6
Size:
240 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+ and (GPLv2+ or LGPLv3+)
Control the elfutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install elfutils
This command will install elfutils on the server.
yum remove elfutils
This command will un-install elfutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove elfutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove elfutils
This command will un-install elfutils 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update elfutils
This command will update elfutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove elfutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update elfutils
This command will update elfutils 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info elfutils
This command will show you core information about the elfutils package.
yum deplist elfutils
This command will show you the dependencies for elfutils. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on elfutils. 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.