Information about the package, perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig package is designed for, Simplistic interface to pkg-config.
Package Name:
perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
Summary:
Simplistic interface to pkg-config
Description:
The pkg-config program retrieves information about installed libraries, usually for the purposes of compiling against and linking to them. ExtUtils::PkgConfig is a very simplistic interface to this utility, intended for use in the Makefile.PL of perl extensions which bind libraries that pkg-config knows. It is really just boilerplate code that you would've written yourself.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.12
Release:
3.el6
Size:
14 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will install perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig on the server.
yum remove perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will un-install perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will un-install perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig 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 perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will update perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will update perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig 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 perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will show you core information about the perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig package.
yum deplist perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig. 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 perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig. 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.