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sigar-devel


Information about the package, sigar-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sigar-devel package is designed for, SIGAR Development package - System Information Gatherer And.


Package Name:

sigar-devel

Summary:

SIGAR Development package - System Information Gatherer And

Description:

Header files for developing against the Sigar API

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.6.5

Release:

0.4.git58097d9.el6

Size:

21 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

ASL 2.0



Handy Yum Commands for sigar-devel


Control the sigar-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install sigar-devel

This command will install sigar-devel on the server.

yum remove sigar-devel

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

yum -y remove sigar-devel

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

yum update sigar-devel

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

yum -y update sigar-devel

This command will update sigar-devel 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 sigar-devel when using the -y flag.

yum info sigar-devel

This command will show you core information about the sigar-devel package.

yum deplist sigar-devel

This command will show you the dependencies for sigar-devel. 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 sigar-devel

This command will check if there is an update waiting on sigar-devel. 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.