Information about the package, gengetopt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gengetopt package is designed for, Tool to write command line option parsing code for C programs.
Package Name:
gengetopt
Summary:
Tool to write command line option parsing code for C programs
Description:
Gengetopt is a tool to generate C code to parse the command line arguments argc and argv that are part of every C or C++ program. The generated code uses the C library function getopt_long to perform the actual command line parsing.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.22.5
Release:
3.el6
Size:
261 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the gengetopt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gengetopt
This command will install gengetopt on the server.
yum remove gengetopt
This command will un-install gengetopt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gengetopt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gengetopt
This command will un-install gengetopt 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 gengetopt when using the -y flag.
yum update gengetopt
This command will update gengetopt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gengetopt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gengetopt
This command will update gengetopt 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 gengetopt when using the -y flag.
yum info gengetopt
This command will show you core information about the gengetopt package.
yum deplist gengetopt
This command will show you the dependencies for gengetopt. 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 gengetopt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gengetopt. 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.