Information about the package, tachyon, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tachyon package is designed for, Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System.
Package Name:
tachyon
Summary:
Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System
Description:
A portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system with multithreaded implementation.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.99
Release:
0.2.b2.el6
Size:
36 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD with advertising
Control the tachyon package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install tachyon
This command will install tachyon on the server.
yum remove tachyon
This command will un-install tachyon on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tachyon, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove tachyon
This command will un-install tachyon 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 tachyon when using the -y flag.
yum update tachyon
This command will update tachyon to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tachyon, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update tachyon
This command will update tachyon 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 tachyon when using the -y flag.
yum info tachyon
This command will show you core information about the tachyon package.
yum deplist tachyon
This command will show you the dependencies for tachyon. 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 tachyon
This command will check if there is an update waiting on tachyon. 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.