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notification-daemon


Information about the package, notification-daemon, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The notification-daemon package is designed for, Desktop Notification Daemon.


Package Name:

notification-daemon

Summary:

Desktop Notification Daemon

Description:

notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop notification specification. Notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.5.0

Release:

1.el6

Size:

69 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for notification-daemon


Control the notification-daemon package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install notification-daemon

This command will install notification-daemon on the server.

yum remove notification-daemon

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

yum -y remove notification-daemon

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

yum update notification-daemon

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

yum -y update notification-daemon

This command will update notification-daemon 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 notification-daemon when using the -y flag.

yum info notification-daemon

This command will show you core information about the notification-daemon package.

yum deplist notification-daemon

This command will show you the dependencies for notification-daemon. 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 notification-daemon

This command will check if there is an update waiting on notification-daemon. 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.