Information about the package, pinentry-gtk, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pinentry-gtk package is designed for, Passphrase/PIN entry dialog based on GTK+.
Package Name:
pinentry-gtk
Summary:
Passphrase/PIN entry dialog based on GTK+
Description:
Pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the aegypten project; see http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ for details. This package contains the GTK GUI based version of the PIN entry dialog.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.7.6
Release:
8.el6
Size:
46 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the pinentry-gtk package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pinentry-gtk
This command will install pinentry-gtk on the server.
yum remove pinentry-gtk
This command will un-install pinentry-gtk on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pinentry-gtk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pinentry-gtk
This command will un-install pinentry-gtk 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 pinentry-gtk when using the -y flag.
yum update pinentry-gtk
This command will update pinentry-gtk to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pinentry-gtk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pinentry-gtk
This command will update pinentry-gtk 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 pinentry-gtk when using the -y flag.
yum info pinentry-gtk
This command will show you core information about the pinentry-gtk package.
yum deplist pinentry-gtk
This command will show you the dependencies for pinentry-gtk. 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 pinentry-gtk
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pinentry-gtk. 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.