Information about the package, ipv6calc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ipv6calc package is designed for, IPv6 address format change and calculation utility.
Package Name:
ipv6calc
Summary:
IPv6 address format change and calculation utility
Description:
ipv6calc is a small utility which formats and calculates IPv4/IPv6 addresses in different ways. Install this package, if you want to retrieve information about a particular IPv4/IPv6/MAC address (-i ADDRESS) or make life easier in adding entries to reverse IPv6 DNS zones (e.g. -a 2001:db8:1234::1/48). In addition many format and type conversions are supported, see online help and/or given URL for more. Also this package contains additional programs - ipv6loganon: anonymize Apache web server logs - ipv6logconv: special Apache web server log converter (examples included for use with analog) - ipv6logstats: create statistics from list of IPv4/IPv6 addresses (examples included for use with gnu-plot) - mod_ipv6calc: Apache module for anonymization/information logging on-the-fly Support for following databases - IP2Location ENABLED default directory for downloaded db files: /usr/share/IP2Location (requires also external library on system) - GeoIP ENABLED default directory for downloaded db files: /usr/share/GeoIP (requires also external library on system) - db-ip.com ENABLED (once generated database files are found on system) default directory for generated db files: /usr/share/DBIP - External ENABLED default directory for generated db files: /usr/share/ipv6calc/db Built WITH shared-library Available rpmbuild rebuild options: --without ip2location --without geoip --without dbip --without external --without shared --without mod_ipv6calc
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.0
Release:
20.el6
Size:
990 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the ipv6calc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ipv6calc
This command will install ipv6calc on the server.
yum remove ipv6calc
This command will un-install ipv6calc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ipv6calc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ipv6calc
This command will un-install ipv6calc 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 ipv6calc when using the -y flag.
yum update ipv6calc
This command will update ipv6calc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ipv6calc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ipv6calc
This command will update ipv6calc 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 ipv6calc when using the -y flag.
yum info ipv6calc
This command will show you core information about the ipv6calc package.
yum deplist ipv6calc
This command will show you the dependencies for ipv6calc. 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 ipv6calc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ipv6calc. 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.