Information about the package, i2c-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The i2c-tools package is designed for, A heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux.
Package Name:
i2c-tools
Summary:
A heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux
Description:
This package contains a heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux: a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level access helpers, EEPROM decoding scripts, and more.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.1.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
67 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the i2c-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install i2c-tools
This command will install i2c-tools on the server.
yum remove i2c-tools
This command will un-install i2c-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove i2c-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove i2c-tools
This command will un-install i2c-tools 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 i2c-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update i2c-tools
This command will update i2c-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove i2c-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update i2c-tools
This command will update i2c-tools 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 i2c-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info i2c-tools
This command will show you core information about the i2c-tools package.
yum deplist i2c-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for i2c-tools. 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 i2c-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on i2c-tools. 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.