Information about the package, libarchive3, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libarchive3 package is designed for, A library for handling streaming archive formats.
Package Name:
libarchive3
Summary:
A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description:
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.3.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
328 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the libarchive3 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libarchive3
This command will install libarchive3 on the server.
yum remove libarchive3
This command will un-install libarchive3 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libarchive3, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libarchive3
This command will un-install libarchive3 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 libarchive3 when using the -y flag.
yum update libarchive3
This command will update libarchive3 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libarchive3, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libarchive3
This command will update libarchive3 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 libarchive3 when using the -y flag.
yum info libarchive3
This command will show you core information about the libarchive3 package.
yum deplist libarchive3
This command will show you the dependencies for libarchive3. 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 libarchive3
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libarchive3. 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.