Information about the package, prelink, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The prelink package is designed for, An ELF prelinking utility.
Package Name:
prelink
Summary:
An ELF prelinking utility
Description:
The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime and thus programs come up faster.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.4.6
Release:
3.1.el6_4
Size:
993 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the prelink package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install prelink
This command will install prelink on the server.
yum remove prelink
This command will un-install prelink on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove prelink, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove prelink
This command will un-install prelink 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 prelink when using the -y flag.
yum update prelink
This command will update prelink to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove prelink, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update prelink
This command will update prelink 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 prelink when using the -y flag.
yum info prelink
This command will show you core information about the prelink package.
yum deplist prelink
This command will show you the dependencies for prelink. 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 prelink
This command will check if there is an update waiting on prelink. 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.