Information about the package, spectre-meltdown-checker, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The spectre-meltdown-checker package is designed for, Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
Package Name:
spectre-meltdown-checker
Summary:
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux
Description:
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.37
Release:
1.el6
Size:
44 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the spectre-meltdown-checker package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will install spectre-meltdown-checker on the server.
yum remove spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will un-install spectre-meltdown-checker on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spectre-meltdown-checker, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will un-install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker when using the -y flag.
yum update spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will update spectre-meltdown-checker to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spectre-meltdown-checker, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will update spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker when using the -y flag.
yum info spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will show you core information about the spectre-meltdown-checker package.
yum deplist spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will show you the dependencies for spectre-meltdown-checker. 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 spectre-meltdown-checker
This command will check if there is an update waiting on spectre-meltdown-checker. 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.