Information about the package, fastlz, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fastlz package is designed for, Portable real-time compression library.
Package Name:
fastlz
Summary:
Portable real-time compression library
URL:
Description:
FastLZ is a lossless data compression library designed for real-time compression and decompression. It favors speed over compression ratio. Decompression requires no memory. Decompression algorithm is very simple, and thus extremely fast.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.1.0
Release:
0.1.20070619svnrev12.el6
Size:
8.2 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the fastlz package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fastlz
This command will install fastlz on the server.
yum remove fastlz
This command will un-install fastlz on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fastlz, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fastlz
This command will un-install fastlz 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 fastlz when using the -y flag.
yum update fastlz
This command will update fastlz to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fastlz, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fastlz
This command will update fastlz 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 fastlz when using the -y flag.
yum info fastlz
This command will show you core information about the fastlz package.
yum deplist fastlz
This command will show you the dependencies for fastlz. 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 fastlz
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fastlz. 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.