Information about the package, flex-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The flex-devel package is designed for, Libraries for flex scanner generator.
Package Name:
flex-devel
Summary:
Libraries for flex scanner generator
Description:
This package contains the library with default implementations of `main' and `yywrap' functions that the client binary can choose to use instead of implementing their own.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.5.35
Release:
9.el6
Size:
12 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the flex-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install flex-devel
This command will install flex-devel on the server.
yum remove flex-devel
This command will un-install flex-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flex-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove flex-devel
This command will un-install flex-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 flex-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update flex-devel
This command will update flex-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove flex-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update flex-devel
This command will update flex-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 flex-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info flex-devel
This command will show you core information about the flex-devel package.
yum deplist flex-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for flex-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 flex-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on flex-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.