Information about the package, dietlibc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dietlibc package is designed for, Small libc implementation.
Package Name:
dietlibc
Summary:
Small libc implementation
Description:
The diet libc is a libc that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, i386, mips, s390, sparc, sparc64, ppc and x86_64.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.33
Release:
8.el6
Size:
59 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the dietlibc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dietlibc
This command will install dietlibc on the server.
yum remove dietlibc
This command will un-install dietlibc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dietlibc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dietlibc
This command will un-install dietlibc 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 dietlibc when using the -y flag.
yum update dietlibc
This command will update dietlibc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dietlibc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dietlibc
This command will update dietlibc 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 dietlibc when using the -y flag.
yum info dietlibc
This command will show you core information about the dietlibc package.
yum deplist dietlibc
This command will show you the dependencies for dietlibc. 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 dietlibc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dietlibc. 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.