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rubygem-curb


Information about the package, rubygem-curb, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rubygem-curb package is designed for, Ruby libcurl bindings.


Package Name:

rubygem-curb

Summary:

Ruby libcurl bindings

Description:

Curb (probably CUrl-RuBy or something) provides Ruby-language bindings for the libcurl(3), a fully-featured client-side URL transfer library. cURL and libcurl live at http://curl.haxx.se/

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.8.4

Release:

2.el6

Size:

40 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

Ruby



Handy Yum Commands for rubygem-curb


Control the rubygem-curb package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install rubygem-curb

This command will install rubygem-curb on the server.

yum remove rubygem-curb

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

yum -y remove rubygem-curb

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

yum update rubygem-curb

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

yum -y update rubygem-curb

This command will update rubygem-curb 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 rubygem-curb when using the -y flag.

yum info rubygem-curb

This command will show you core information about the rubygem-curb package.

yum deplist rubygem-curb

This command will show you the dependencies for rubygem-curb. 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 rubygem-curb

This command will check if there is an update waiting on rubygem-curb. 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.