Information about the package, libatomic_ops-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libatomic_ops-devel package is designed for, Atomic memory update operations.
Package Name:
libatomic_ops-devel
Summary:
Atomic memory update operations
Description:
Provides implementations for atomic memory update operations on a number of architectures. This allows direct use of these in reasonably portable code. Unlike earlier similar packages, this one explicitly considers memory barrier semantics, and allows the construction of code that involves minimum overhead across a variety of architectures.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2
Release:
8.gc.1.el6
Size:
64 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and MIT
Control the libatomic_ops-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libatomic_ops-devel
This command will install libatomic_ops-devel on the server.
yum remove libatomic_ops-devel
This command will un-install libatomic_ops-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libatomic_ops-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libatomic_ops-devel
This command will un-install libatomic_ops-devel 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 libatomic_ops-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libatomic_ops-devel
This command will update libatomic_ops-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libatomic_ops-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libatomic_ops-devel
This command will update libatomic_ops-devel 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 libatomic_ops-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libatomic_ops-devel
This command will show you core information about the libatomic_ops-devel package.
yum deplist libatomic_ops-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libatomic_ops-devel. 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 libatomic_ops-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libatomic_ops-devel. 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.