Information about the package, perl-Socket6, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Socket6 package is designed for, IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure.
Package Name:
perl-Socket6
Summary:
IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure
Description:
This module supports getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() to intend to enable protocol independent programing. If your environment supports IPv6, IPv6 related defines such as AF_INET6 are included.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.23
Release:
4.el6
Size:
27 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the perl-Socket6 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Socket6
This command will install perl-Socket6 on the server.
yum remove perl-Socket6
This command will un-install perl-Socket6 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Socket6, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Socket6
This command will un-install perl-Socket6 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-Socket6 when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Socket6
This command will update perl-Socket6 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Socket6, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Socket6
This command will update perl-Socket6 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-Socket6 when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Socket6
This command will show you core information about the perl-Socket6 package.
yum deplist perl-Socket6
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Socket6. 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-Socket6
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Socket6. 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.