Information about the package, libburn1, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libburn1 package is designed for, Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs.
Package Name:
libburn1
Summary:
Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs
Description:
Libburn is a library by which preformatted data get onto optical media: CD, DVD and BD (Blu-Ray). It also offers a facility for reading data blocks from its drives without using the normal block device I/O, which has advantages and disadvantages. It seems appropriate, nevertheless, to do writing and reading via same channel. On several Linux systems, the block device driver needs reloading of the drive tray in order to make available freshly written data. The libburn read function does not need such a reload. The code of libburn is independent of cdrecord.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
156 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the libburn1 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libburn1
This command will install libburn1 on the server.
yum remove libburn1
This command will un-install libburn1 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libburn1, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libburn1
This command will un-install libburn1 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 libburn1 when using the -y flag.
yum update libburn1
This command will update libburn1 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libburn1, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libburn1
This command will update libburn1 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 libburn1 when using the -y flag.
yum info libburn1
This command will show you core information about the libburn1 package.
yum deplist libburn1
This command will show you the dependencies for libburn1. 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 libburn1
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libburn1. 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.