Information about the package, rubygems, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rubygems package is designed for, The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries.
Package Name:
rubygems
Summary:
The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries
Description:
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.3.7
Release:
5.el6
Size:
207 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the rubygems package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rubygems
This command will install rubygems on the server.
yum remove rubygems
This command will un-install rubygems on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygems, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rubygems
This command will un-install rubygems 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 rubygems when using the -y flag.
yum update rubygems
This command will update rubygems to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygems, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rubygems
This command will update rubygems 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 rubygems when using the -y flag.
yum info rubygems
This command will show you core information about the rubygems package.
yum deplist rubygems
This command will show you the dependencies for rubygems. 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 rubygems
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rubygems. 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.