Information about the package, protobuf, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The protobuf package is designed for, Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format.
Package Name:
protobuf
Summary:
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Description:
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats. Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the "old" format.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.3.0
Release:
9.el6
Size:
289 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the protobuf package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install protobuf
This command will install protobuf on the server.
yum remove protobuf
This command will un-install protobuf on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove protobuf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove protobuf
This command will un-install protobuf 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 protobuf when using the -y flag.
yum update protobuf
This command will update protobuf to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove protobuf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update protobuf
This command will update protobuf 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 protobuf when using the -y flag.
yum info protobuf
This command will show you core information about the protobuf package.
yum deplist protobuf
This command will show you the dependencies for protobuf. 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 protobuf
This command will check if there is an update waiting on protobuf. 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.