Information about the package, p7zip, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The p7zip package is designed for, Very high compression ratio file archiver.
Package Name:
p7zip
Summary:
Very high compression ratio file archiver
Description:
p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high compression ratio. The original version can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
16.02
Release:
10.el6
Size:
662 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2 and (LGPLv2+ or CPL)
Control the p7zip package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install p7zip
This command will install p7zip on the server.
yum remove p7zip
This command will un-install p7zip on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove p7zip, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove p7zip
This command will un-install p7zip 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 p7zip when using the -y flag.
yum update p7zip
This command will update p7zip to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove p7zip, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update p7zip
This command will update p7zip 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 p7zip when using the -y flag.
yum info p7zip
This command will show you core information about the p7zip package.
yum deplist p7zip
This command will show you the dependencies for p7zip. 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 p7zip
This command will check if there is an update waiting on p7zip. 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.