Information about the package, environment-modules, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The environment-modules package is designed for, Provides dynamic modification of a user's environment.
Package Name:
environment-modules
Summary:
Provides dynamic modification of a user's environment
Description:
The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. Each modulefile contains the information needed to configure the shell for an application. Once the Modules package is initialized, the environment can be modified on a per-module basis using the module command which interprets modulefiles. Typically modulefiles instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc. modulefiles may be shared by many users on a system and users may have their own collection to supplement or replace the shared modulefiles. Modules can be loaded and unloaded dynamically and atomically, in an clean fashion. All popular shells are supported, including bash, ksh, zsh, sh, csh, tcsh, as well as some scripting languages such as perl. Modules are useful in managing different versions of applications. Modules can also be bundled into metamodules that will load an entire suite of different applications. NOTE: You will need to get a new shell after installing this package to have access to the module alias.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.2.10
Release:
3.el6
Size:
103 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the environment-modules package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install environment-modules
This command will install environment-modules on the server.
yum remove environment-modules
This command will un-install environment-modules on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove environment-modules, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove environment-modules
This command will un-install environment-modules 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 environment-modules when using the -y flag.
yum update environment-modules
This command will update environment-modules to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove environment-modules, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update environment-modules
This command will update environment-modules 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 environment-modules when using the -y flag.
yum info environment-modules
This command will show you core information about the environment-modules package.
yum deplist environment-modules
This command will show you the dependencies for environment-modules. 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 environment-modules
This command will check if there is an update waiting on environment-modules. 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.