Information about the package, nettle-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nettle-devel package is designed for, Development headers for a low-level cryptographic library.
Package Name:
nettle-devel
Summary:
Development headers for a low-level cryptographic library
Description:
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. This package contains the files needed for developing applications with nettle.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
605 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+
Control the nettle-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nettle-devel
This command will install nettle-devel on the server.
yum remove nettle-devel
This command will un-install nettle-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nettle-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nettle-devel
This command will un-install nettle-devel 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 nettle-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update nettle-devel
This command will update nettle-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nettle-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nettle-devel
This command will update nettle-devel 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 nettle-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info nettle-devel
This command will show you core information about the nettle-devel package.
yum deplist nettle-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for nettle-devel. 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 nettle-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nettle-devel. 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.