Information about the package, guile, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The guile package is designed for, A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility.
Package Name:
guile
Summary:
A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility
Description:
GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.8.7
Release:
5.el6
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the guile package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install guile
This command will install guile on the server.
yum remove guile
This command will un-install guile on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove guile, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove guile
This command will un-install guile 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 guile when using the -y flag.
yum update guile
This command will update guile to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove guile, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update guile
This command will update guile 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 guile when using the -y flag.
yum info guile
This command will show you core information about the guile package.
yum deplist guile
This command will show you the dependencies for guile. 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 guile
This command will check if there is an update waiting on guile. 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.