Information about the package, trickle, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The trickle package is designed for, Portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper.
Package Name:
trickle
Summary:
Portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper
Description:
trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode or in stand alone mode. trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. Essentially it provides, to the application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send and receive data through sockets. It then limits traffic based on delaying the sending and receiving of data over a socket. trickle runs entirely in userspace and does not require root privileges.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.07
Release:
19.el6
Size:
42 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD with advertising
Control the trickle package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install trickle
This command will install trickle on the server.
yum remove trickle
This command will un-install trickle on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove trickle, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove trickle
This command will un-install trickle 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 trickle when using the -y flag.
yum update trickle
This command will update trickle to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove trickle, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update trickle
This command will update trickle 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 trickle when using the -y flag.
yum info trickle
This command will show you core information about the trickle package.
yum deplist trickle
This command will show you the dependencies for trickle. 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 trickle
This command will check if there is an update waiting on trickle. 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.