Information about the package, perl-WWW-Shorten, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-WWW-Shorten package is designed for, Interface to URL shortening sites.
Package Name:
perl-WWW-Shorten
Summary:
Interface to URL shortening sites
Description:
A unified interface to various URL shortening services on the web, such as TinyURL or makeashorterlink.com.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.03
Release:
4.el6
Size:
54 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Artistic 2.0
Control the perl-WWW-Shorten package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will install perl-WWW-Shorten on the server.
yum remove perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will un-install perl-WWW-Shorten on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-WWW-Shorten, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will un-install perl-WWW-Shorten 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-WWW-Shorten when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will update perl-WWW-Shorten to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-WWW-Shorten, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will update perl-WWW-Shorten 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-WWW-Shorten when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will show you core information about the perl-WWW-Shorten package.
yum deplist perl-WWW-Shorten
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-WWW-Shorten. 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-WWW-Shorten
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-WWW-Shorten. 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.