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libburn


Information about the package, libburn, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libburn package is designed for, Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs.


Package Name:

libburn

Summary:

Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs

Description:

Libburn is an open-source library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs. For now this means only CD-R and CD-RW. The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which together strive to be a usable foundation for application development. These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate classical (and valuable) Linux tools.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.7.0

Release:

2.el6

Size:

105 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for libburn


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install libburn

This command will install libburn on the server.

yum remove libburn

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

yum -y remove libburn

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

yum update libburn

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

yum -y update libburn

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

yum info libburn

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

yum deplist libburn

This command will show you the dependencies for libburn. 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 libburn

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