Information about the package, openscap-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The openscap-utils package is designed for, OpenSCAP Utilities.
Package Name:
openscap-utils
Summary:
OpenSCAP Utilities
Description:
The openscap-utils package contains command-line tools build on top of OpenSCAP library. Historically, openscap-utils included oscap tool which is now separated to openscap-scanner sub-package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.13
Release:
2.el6
Size:
24 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the openscap-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install openscap-utils
This command will install openscap-utils on the server.
yum remove openscap-utils
This command will un-install openscap-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openscap-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove openscap-utils
This command will un-install openscap-utils 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 openscap-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update openscap-utils
This command will update openscap-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openscap-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update openscap-utils
This command will update openscap-utils 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 openscap-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info openscap-utils
This command will show you core information about the openscap-utils package.
yum deplist openscap-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for openscap-utils. 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 openscap-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on openscap-utils. 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.