Information about the package, uuid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The uuid package is designed for, Universally Unique Identifier library.
Package Name:
uuid
Summary:
Universally Unique Identifier library
Description:
OSSP uuid is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API) and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 compliant Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and PHP:4/5. Optional backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data::UUID APIs.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.6.1
Release:
10.el6
Size:
54 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the uuid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install uuid
This command will install uuid on the server.
yum remove uuid
This command will un-install uuid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove uuid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove uuid
This command will un-install uuid 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 uuid when using the -y flag.
yum update uuid
This command will update uuid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove uuid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update uuid
This command will update uuid 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 uuid when using the -y flag.
yum info uuid
This command will show you core information about the uuid package.
yum deplist uuid
This command will show you the dependencies for uuid. 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 uuid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on uuid. 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.