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aterm


Information about the package, aterm, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The aterm package is designed for, Afterstep XVT, VT102 emulator for the X Window system.


Package Name:

aterm

Summary:

Afterstep XVT, VT102 emulator for the X Window system

Description:

aterm, version 1.00 is a colour vt102 terminal emulator, based on rxvt 2.4.8 with Alfredo Kojima´s additions of fast transparency, intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require fea- tures such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurabil- ity. As a result, aterm uses much less swap space -- a significant advantage on a machine serving many X sessions.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.0.1

Release:

6.el6

Size:

118 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for aterm


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install aterm

This command will install aterm on the server.

yum remove aterm

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

yum -y remove aterm

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

yum update aterm

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

yum -y update aterm

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

yum info aterm

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

yum deplist aterm

This command will show you the dependencies for aterm. 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 aterm

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