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fbpanel


Information about the package, fbpanel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fbpanel package is designed for, A lightweight X11 desktop panel.


Package Name:

fbpanel

Summary:

A lightweight X11 desktop panel

Description:

fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It works with any ICCCM / NETWM compliant window manager such as sawfish, metacity, openbox, xfwm4, or KDE. It features tasklist, pager, launchbar, clock, menu and systray.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

6.1

Release:

4.el6

Size:

206 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for fbpanel


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install fbpanel

This command will install fbpanel on the server.

yum remove fbpanel

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

yum -y remove fbpanel

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

yum update fbpanel

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

yum -y update fbpanel

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

yum info fbpanel

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

yum deplist fbpanel

This command will show you the dependencies for fbpanel. 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 fbpanel

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