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prosody


Information about the package, prosody, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The prosody package is designed for, Flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP.


Package Name:

prosody

Summary:

Flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP

Description:

Prosody is a flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua. It aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.10.0

Release:

1.el6

Size:

299 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT



Handy Yum Commands for prosody


Control the prosody package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install prosody

This command will install prosody on the server.

yum remove prosody

This command will un-install prosody on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove prosody, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove prosody

This command will un-install prosody 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 prosody when using the -y flag.

yum update prosody

This command will update prosody to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove prosody, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update prosody

This command will update prosody 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 prosody when using the -y flag.

yum info prosody

This command will show you core information about the prosody package.

yum deplist prosody

This command will show you the dependencies for prosody. 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 prosody

This command will check if there is an update waiting on prosody. 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.