Information about the package, libcap-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libcap-devel package is designed for, Development files for libcap.
Package Name:
libcap-devel
Summary:
Development files for libcap
Description:
Development files (Headers, libraries for static linking, etc) for libcap. libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities. Install libcap-devel if you want to develop or compile applications using libcap.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.16
Release:
5.5.el6
Size:
24 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+ or BSD
Control the libcap-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libcap-devel
This command will install libcap-devel on the server.
yum remove libcap-devel
This command will un-install libcap-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libcap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libcap-devel
This command will un-install libcap-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 libcap-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libcap-devel
This command will update libcap-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libcap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libcap-devel
This command will update libcap-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 libcap-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libcap-devel
This command will show you core information about the libcap-devel package.
yum deplist libcap-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libcap-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 libcap-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libcap-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.