Information about the package, groff-perl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The groff-perl package is designed for, Parts of the groff formatting system that require Perl.
Package Name:
groff-perl
Summary:
Parts of the groff formatting system that require Perl
Description:
The groff-perl package contains the parts of the groff text processor package that require Perl. These include the afmtodit font processor for creating PostScript font files, the grog utility that can be used to automatically determine groff command-line options, and the troff-to-ps print filter.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.18.1.4
Release:
21.el6
Size:
24 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and GFDL
Control the groff-perl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install groff-perl
This command will install groff-perl on the server.
yum remove groff-perl
This command will un-install groff-perl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove groff-perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove groff-perl
This command will un-install groff-perl 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 groff-perl when using the -y flag.
yum update groff-perl
This command will update groff-perl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove groff-perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update groff-perl
This command will update groff-perl 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 groff-perl when using the -y flag.
yum info groff-perl
This command will show you core information about the groff-perl package.
yum deplist groff-perl
This command will show you the dependencies for groff-perl. 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 groff-perl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on groff-perl. 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.