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Information about the package, rest, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rest package is designed for, A library for access to RESTful web services.


Package Name:

rest

Summary:

A library for access to RESTful web services

Description:

This library was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". A RESTful service should have urls that represent remote objects, which methods can then be called on. The majority of services don't actually adhere to this strict definition. Instead, their RESTful end point usually has an API that is just simpler to use compared to other types of APIs they may support (XML-RPC, for instance). It is this kind of API that this library is attempting to support.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.7.92

Release:

3.el6

Size:

54 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for rest


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install rest

This command will install rest on the server.

yum remove rest

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

yum -y remove rest

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

yum update rest

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

yum -y update rest

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

yum info rest

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

yum deplist rest

This command will show you the dependencies for rest. 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 rest

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