Information about the package, libexplain, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libexplain package is designed for, Library functions to explain system call errors.
Package Name:
libexplain
Summary:
Library functions to explain system call errors
Description:
The libexplain project provides a library which may be used to explain Unix and Linux system call errors. This will make your application's error messages much more informative to your users. The library is not quite a drop-in replacement for strerror, but it comes close. Each system call has a dedicated libexplain function. The coverage for system calls is being improved all the time. Coverage includes 159 system calls and 444 ioctl requests.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.52.D002
Release:
1.el6
Size:
291 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3+
Control the libexplain package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libexplain
This command will install libexplain on the server.
yum remove libexplain
This command will un-install libexplain on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libexplain, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libexplain
This command will un-install libexplain 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 libexplain when using the -y flag.
yum update libexplain
This command will update libexplain to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libexplain, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libexplain
This command will update libexplain 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 libexplain when using the -y flag.
yum info libexplain
This command will show you core information about the libexplain package.
yum deplist libexplain
This command will show you the dependencies for libexplain. 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 libexplain
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libexplain. 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.