Information about the package, scotch, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The scotch package is designed for, Graph, mesh and hypergraph partitioning library.
Package Name:
scotch
Summary:
Graph, mesh and hypergraph partitioning library
Description:
Scotch is a software package for graph and mesh/hypergraph partitioning and sparse matrix ordering. The parallel scotch libraries are packaged in the ptscotch sub-packages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
6.0.4
Release:
10.el6
Size:
298 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CeCILL-C
Control the scotch package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install scotch
This command will install scotch on the server.
yum remove scotch
This command will un-install scotch on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove scotch, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove scotch
This command will un-install scotch 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 scotch when using the -y flag.
yum update scotch
This command will update scotch to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove scotch, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update scotch
This command will update scotch 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 scotch when using the -y flag.
yum info scotch
This command will show you core information about the scotch package.
yum deplist scotch
This command will show you the dependencies for scotch. 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 scotch
This command will check if there is an update waiting on scotch. 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.