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gtksourceview2


Information about the package, gtksourceview2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gtksourceview2 package is designed for, A library for viewing source files.


Package Name:

gtksourceview2

Summary:

A library for viewing source files

Description:

GtkSourceView is a text widget that extends the standard GTK+ GtkTextView widget. It improves GtkTextView by implementing syntax highlighting and other features typical of a source code editor. This package contains version 2 of GtkSourceView. The older version 1 is contains in the gtksourceview package.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.8.2

Release:

4.el6

Size:

567 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for gtksourceview2


Control the gtksourceview2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install gtksourceview2

This command will install gtksourceview2 on the server.

yum remove gtksourceview2

This command will un-install gtksourceview2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gtksourceview2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove gtksourceview2

This command will un-install gtksourceview2 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 gtksourceview2 when using the -y flag.

yum update gtksourceview2

This command will update gtksourceview2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gtksourceview2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update gtksourceview2

This command will update gtksourceview2 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 gtksourceview2 when using the -y flag.

yum info gtksourceview2

This command will show you core information about the gtksourceview2 package.

yum deplist gtksourceview2

This command will show you the dependencies for gtksourceview2. 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 gtksourceview2

This command will check if there is an update waiting on gtksourceview2. 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.