Information about the package, giflib-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The giflib-devel package is designed for, Development tools for programs using the giflib library.
Package Name:
giflib-devel
Summary:
Development tools for programs using the giflib library
Description:
The giflib-devel package includes header files, libraries necessary for developing programs which use the giflib library to load and save GIF format image files. It contains the documentation of the giflib library, too.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.1.6
Release:
3.1.el6
Size:
85 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the giflib-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install giflib-devel
This command will install giflib-devel on the server.
yum remove giflib-devel
This command will un-install giflib-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove giflib-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove giflib-devel
This command will un-install giflib-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 giflib-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update giflib-devel
This command will update giflib-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove giflib-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update giflib-devel
This command will update giflib-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 giflib-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info giflib-devel
This command will show you core information about the giflib-devel package.
yum deplist giflib-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for giflib-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 giflib-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on giflib-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.