Information about the package, dpm-perl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dpm-perl package is designed for, Disk Pool Manager (DPM) perl bindings.
Package Name:
dpm-perl
Summary:
Disk Pool Manager (DPM) perl bindings
Description:
The LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) creates a storage element from a set of disks. It provides several interfaces for storing and retrieving data such as RFIO and SRM version 1, version 2 and version 2.2. This package provides Perl bindings for the DPM client library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.9.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
177 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the dpm-perl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dpm-perl
This command will install dpm-perl on the server.
yum remove dpm-perl
This command will un-install dpm-perl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dpm-perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dpm-perl
This command will un-install dpm-perl 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 dpm-perl when using the -y flag.
yum update dpm-perl
This command will update dpm-perl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dpm-perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dpm-perl
This command will update dpm-perl 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 dpm-perl when using the -y flag.
yum info dpm-perl
This command will show you core information about the dpm-perl package.
yum deplist dpm-perl
This command will show you the dependencies for dpm-perl. 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 dpm-perl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dpm-perl. 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.