Information about the package, dfu-util, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dfu-util package is designed for, USB Device Firmware Upgrade tool.
Package Name:
dfu-util
Summary:
USB Device Firmware Upgrade tool
Description:
USB Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) is an official USB device class specification of the USB Implementers Forum. It specifies a vendor and device independent way of updating the firmware of a USB device. The idea is to have only one vendor-independent firmware update tool as part of the operating system, which can then (given a particular firmware image) be downloaded into the device. In addition to firmware download, it also specifies firmware upload, i.e. loading the currently installed device firmware to the USB Host. The DFU specification can be found at: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usbdfu10.pdf
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.7
Release:
1.el6
Size:
40 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the dfu-util package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dfu-util
This command will install dfu-util on the server.
yum remove dfu-util
This command will un-install dfu-util on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dfu-util, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dfu-util
This command will un-install dfu-util 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 dfu-util when using the -y flag.
yum update dfu-util
This command will update dfu-util to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dfu-util, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dfu-util
This command will update dfu-util 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 dfu-util when using the -y flag.
yum info dfu-util
This command will show you core information about the dfu-util package.
yum deplist dfu-util
This command will show you the dependencies for dfu-util. 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 dfu-util
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dfu-util. 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.