hal

Package Name:

hal

Summary:

Hardware Abstraction Layer

URL:

http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal

Description:

HAL is a daemon for collecting and maintaining information from several sources about the hardware on the system.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.5.14

Release:

14.el6

Size:

375 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

AFL or GPLv2

Command

Description of Command

yum install hal

This command will install hal on the server.

yum remove hal

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

yum -y remove hal

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

yum update hal

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

yum -y update hal

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

yum info hal

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

yum deplist hal

This command will show you the dependencies for hal. 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 hal

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

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