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arpack-devel


Information about the package, arpack-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The arpack-devel package is designed for, Files needed for developing arpack based applications.


Package Name:

arpack-devel

Summary:

Files needed for developing arpack based applications

Description:

ARPACK is a collection of Fortran 77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. This package contains the so library links used for building arpack based applications.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.1.3

Release:

1.el6

Size:

84 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD



Handy Yum Commands for arpack-devel


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install arpack-devel

This command will install arpack-devel on the server.

yum remove arpack-devel

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

yum -y remove arpack-devel

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

yum update arpack-devel

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

yum -y update arpack-devel

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

yum info arpack-devel

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

yum deplist arpack-devel

This command will show you the dependencies for arpack-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 arpack-devel

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