Information about the package, perl-IO-Digest, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-IO-Digest package is designed for, Calculate digests while reading or writing.
Package Name:
perl-IO-Digest
Summary:
Calculate digests while reading or writing
Description:
This module allows you to calculate digests while reading or writing file handles. This avoids the case you need to reread the same content to compute the digests after written a file.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.10
Release:
16.el6
Size:
9.2 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-IO-Digest package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-IO-Digest
This command will install perl-IO-Digest on the server.
yum remove perl-IO-Digest
This command will un-install perl-IO-Digest on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-IO-Digest, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-IO-Digest
This command will un-install perl-IO-Digest 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-IO-Digest when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-IO-Digest
This command will update perl-IO-Digest to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-IO-Digest, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-IO-Digest
This command will update perl-IO-Digest 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-IO-Digest when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-IO-Digest
This command will show you core information about the perl-IO-Digest package.
yum deplist perl-IO-Digest
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-IO-Digest. 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-IO-Digest
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-IO-Digest. 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.