Information about the package, ghc-zlib, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ghc-zlib package is designed for, Haskell compression and decompression library.
Package Name:
ghc-zlib
Summary:
Haskell compression and decompression library
Description:
This package provides a pure Haskell interface for compressing and decompressing streams of data represented as lazy ByteStrings. It uses the zlib C library so it has high performance. It supports the "zlib", "gzip" and "raw" compression formats. It provides a convenient high level API suitable for most tasks. For the few cases where more control is needed, it provides access to the full zlib feature set.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.5.3.1
Release:
8.el6
Size:
30 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the ghc-zlib package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ghc-zlib
This command will install ghc-zlib on the server.
yum remove ghc-zlib
This command will un-install ghc-zlib on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghc-zlib, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ghc-zlib
This command will un-install ghc-zlib 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 ghc-zlib when using the -y flag.
yum update ghc-zlib
This command will update ghc-zlib to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ghc-zlib, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ghc-zlib
This command will update ghc-zlib 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 ghc-zlib when using the -y flag.
yum info ghc-zlib
This command will show you core information about the ghc-zlib package.
yum deplist ghc-zlib
This command will show you the dependencies for ghc-zlib. 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 ghc-zlib
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ghc-zlib. 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.