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qt


Information about the package, qt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The qt package is designed for, Qt toolkit.


Package Name:

qt

Summary:

Qt toolkit

Description:

BSD and FLT and MIT Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. This package contains base tools, like string, xml, and network handling.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

4.6.2

Release:

28.el6_5

Size:

3.9 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

(LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions) and ASL 2.0 and



Handy Yum Commands for qt


Control the qt package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install qt

This command will install qt on the server.

yum remove qt

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

yum -y remove qt

This command will un-install qt 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 qt when using the -y flag.

yum update qt

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

yum -y update qt

This command will update qt 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 qt when using the -y flag.

yum info qt

This command will show you core information about the qt package.

yum deplist qt

This command will show you the dependencies for qt. 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 qt

This command will check if there is an update waiting on qt. 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.