Information about the package, libdv-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libdv-tools package is designed for, Basic tools to manipulate Digital Video streams.
Package Name:
libdv-tools
Summary:
Basic tools to manipulate Digital Video streams
Description:
This package contains some basic programs to display and encode digital video streams. This programs uses the Quasar DV codec (libdv), a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.0
Release:
8.1.el6
Size:
40 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libdv-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libdv-tools
This command will install libdv-tools on the server.
yum remove libdv-tools
This command will un-install libdv-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libdv-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libdv-tools
This command will un-install libdv-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 libdv-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update libdv-tools
This command will update libdv-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libdv-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libdv-tools
This command will update libdv-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 libdv-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info libdv-tools
This command will show you core information about the libdv-tools package.
yum deplist libdv-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for libdv-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 libdv-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libdv-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.