Information about the package, expect-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The expect-devel package is designed for, A program-script interaction and testing utility.
Package Name:
expect-devel
Summary:
A program-script interaction and testing utility
Description:
Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. This package contains development files for the expect library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.44.1.15
Release:
5.el6_4
Size:
31 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the expect-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install expect-devel
This command will install expect-devel on the server.
yum remove expect-devel
This command will un-install expect-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove expect-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove expect-devel
This command will un-install expect-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 expect-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update expect-devel
This command will update expect-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove expect-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update expect-devel
This command will update expect-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 expect-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info expect-devel
This command will show you core information about the expect-devel package.
yum deplist expect-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for expect-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 expect-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on expect-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.