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perl-Net-IP


Information about the package, perl-Net-IP, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Net-IP package is designed for, Perl module for manipulation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.


Package Name:

perl-Net-IP

Summary:

Perl module for manipulation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Description:

This is the Net::IP module for Perl, designed to allow easy manipulation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Two applications using the Net::IP module are included: ipcount, an IP address mini-calculator, it can calculate the number of IP addresses in a prefix or all the prefixes contained in a given range; and iptab, which prints out a handy IP "cheat sheet".

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.25

Release:

13.el6

Size:

32 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT and (GPL+ or Artistic)



Handy Yum Commands for perl-Net-IP


Control the perl-Net-IP package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install perl-Net-IP

This command will install perl-Net-IP on the server.

yum remove perl-Net-IP

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

yum -y remove perl-Net-IP

This command will un-install perl-Net-IP 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 perl-Net-IP when using the -y flag.

yum update perl-Net-IP

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

yum -y update perl-Net-IP

This command will update perl-Net-IP 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 perl-Net-IP when using the -y flag.

yum info perl-Net-IP

This command will show you core information about the perl-Net-IP package.

yum deplist perl-Net-IP

This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Net-IP. 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 perl-Net-IP

This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Net-IP. 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.