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zenity


Information about the package, zenity, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The zenity package is designed for, Display dialog boxes from shell scripts.


Package Name:

zenity

Summary:

Display dialog boxes from shell scripts

Description:

Zenity lets you display Gtk+ dialog boxes from the command line and through shell scripts. It is similar to gdialog, but is intended to be saner. It comes from the same family as dialog, Xdialog, and cdialog.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.28.0

Release:

1.el6

Size:

2.6 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for zenity


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install zenity

This command will install zenity on the server.

yum remove zenity

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

yum -y remove zenity

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

yum update zenity

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

yum -y update zenity

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

yum info zenity

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

yum deplist zenity

This command will show you the dependencies for zenity. 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 zenity

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