Information about the package, geos-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The geos-devel package is designed for, Development files for GEOS.
Package Name:
geos-devel
Summary:
Development files for GEOS
Description:
GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS topology functions such as IsValid() This package contains the development files to build applications that use GEOS
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.3.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2
Control the geos-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install geos-devel
This command will install geos-devel on the server.
yum remove geos-devel
This command will un-install geos-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geos-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove geos-devel
This command will un-install geos-devel 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 geos-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update geos-devel
This command will update geos-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geos-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update geos-devel
This command will update geos-devel 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 geos-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info geos-devel
This command will show you core information about the geos-devel package.
yum deplist geos-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for geos-devel. 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 geos-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on geos-devel. 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.