Information about the package, perl-Gtk2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Gtk2 package is designed for, Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library.
Package Name:
perl-Gtk2
Summary:
Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library
Description:
This module allows you to write Gtk+ graphical user interfaces in a perlish and object-oriented way, freeing you from the casting and memory management in C, yet remaining very close in spirit to original API. Find out more about Gtk+ at http://www.gtk.org.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2495
Release:
1.el6
Size:
2.2 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the perl-Gtk2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Gtk2
This command will install perl-Gtk2 on the server.
yum remove perl-Gtk2
This command will un-install perl-Gtk2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Gtk2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Gtk2
This command will un-install perl-Gtk2 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-Gtk2 when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Gtk2
This command will update perl-Gtk2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Gtk2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Gtk2
This command will update perl-Gtk2 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-Gtk2 when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Gtk2
This command will show you core information about the perl-Gtk2 package.
yum deplist perl-Gtk2
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Gtk2. 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-Gtk2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Gtk2. 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.