Information about the package, python2-bitarray, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The python2-bitarray package is designed for, Efficient Array of Booleans --C Extensions.
Package Name:
python2-bitarray
Summary:
Efficient Array of Booleans --C Extensions
Description:
Bitarrays are sequence types and behave very much like usual lists. Eight bits are represented by one byte in contiguous block of memory. The user can select between two representations; little-endian and big-endian. Most of the functionality is implemented in C.Methods for accessing the machine representation are provided. This can be useful when bit level access to binary files is required, such as portable bitmap image files (.pbm). Also, when dealing with compressed data which uses variable bit length encoding you may find this module useful. This is Python 2 version.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.8.1
Release:
4.el6
Size:
62 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Python
Control the python2-bitarray package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install python2-bitarray
This command will install python2-bitarray on the server.
yum remove python2-bitarray
This command will un-install python2-bitarray on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python2-bitarray, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove python2-bitarray
This command will un-install python2-bitarray 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 python2-bitarray when using the -y flag.
yum update python2-bitarray
This command will update python2-bitarray to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python2-bitarray, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update python2-bitarray
This command will update python2-bitarray 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 python2-bitarray when using the -y flag.
yum info python2-bitarray
This command will show you core information about the python2-bitarray package.
yum deplist python2-bitarray
This command will show you the dependencies for python2-bitarray. 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 python2-bitarray
This command will check if there is an update waiting on python2-bitarray. 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.