Information about the package, snap, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The snap package is designed for, A modular system backup/restore utility.
Package Name:
snap
Summary:
A modular system backup/restore utility
Description:
Snap! is a system snapshot utility which uses the underlying package management system and native tooling to take and restore system snapshots. It provides a very simple command line and graphical interface as well as an API which can be easily extended to take snapshots of any custom system entity (support for repositories, packages, files, and various services are provided right out of the box)
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.6
Release:
1.el6
Size:
152 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the snap package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install snap
This command will install snap on the server.
yum remove snap
This command will un-install snap on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove snap
This command will un-install snap 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 snap when using the -y flag.
yum update snap
This command will update snap to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update snap
This command will update snap 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 snap when using the -y flag.
yum info snap
This command will show you core information about the snap package.
yum deplist snap
This command will show you the dependencies for snap. 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 snap
This command will check if there is an update waiting on snap. 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.