Information about the package, plpa-libs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The plpa-libs package is designed for, Portable Linux Processor Affinity Libraries.
Package Name:
plpa-libs
Summary:
Portable Linux Processor Affinity Libraries
Description:
PLPA is an attempt to solve the problem that there are multiple API's for processor affinity within Linux. Specifically, the functions sched_setaffinity() and sched_getaffinity() have numbers and types of parameters depending on your Linux vendor and/or version of GLibc. This is quite problematic for applications attempting to use processor affinity in Linux for compile-time, link-time, and run-time reasons. plpa-libs contains runtime libraries.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.3.2
Release:
2.1.el6
Size:
25 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD and AMDPLPA
Control the plpa-libs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install plpa-libs
This command will install plpa-libs on the server.
yum remove plpa-libs
This command will un-install plpa-libs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plpa-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove plpa-libs
This command will un-install plpa-libs 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 plpa-libs when using the -y flag.
yum update plpa-libs
This command will update plpa-libs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plpa-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update plpa-libs
This command will update plpa-libs 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 plpa-libs when using the -y flag.
yum info plpa-libs
This command will show you core information about the plpa-libs package.
yum deplist plpa-libs
This command will show you the dependencies for plpa-libs. 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 plpa-libs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on plpa-libs. 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.