Information about the package, slang, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The slang package is designed for, The shared library for the S-Lang extension language.
Package Name:
slang
Summary:
The shared library for the S-Lang extension language
Description:
S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang's syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.
Architecture:
i686
Version:
2.2.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
472 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the slang package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install slang
This command will install slang on the server.
yum remove slang
This command will un-install slang on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove slang, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove slang
This command will un-install slang 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 slang when using the -y flag.
yum update slang
This command will update slang to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove slang, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update slang
This command will update slang 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 slang when using the -y flag.
yum info slang
This command will show you core information about the slang package.
yum deplist slang
This command will show you the dependencies for slang. 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 slang
This command will check if there is an update waiting on slang. 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.