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libEMF


Information about the package, libEMF, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libEMF package is designed for, A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles.


Package Name:

libEMF

Summary:

A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

Description:

libEMF is a library for generating Enhanced Metafiles on systems which don't natively support the ECMA-234 Graphics Device Interface (GDI). The library is intended to be used as a driver for other graphics programs such as Grace or gnuplot. Therefore, it implements a very limited subset of the GDI.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.0.4

Release:

1.el6

Size:

75 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libEMF


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install libEMF

This command will install libEMF on the server.

yum remove libEMF

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

yum -y remove libEMF

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

yum update libEMF

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

yum -y update libEMF

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

yum info libEMF

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

yum deplist libEMF

This command will show you the dependencies for libEMF. 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 libEMF

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