Information about the package, binutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The binutils package is designed for, A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Package Name:
binutils
Summary:
A GNU collection of binary utilities
Description:
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.20.51.0.2
Release:
5.47.el6_9.1
Size:
9.4 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the binutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install binutils
This command will install binutils on the server.
yum remove binutils
This command will un-install binutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove binutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove binutils
This command will un-install binutils 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 binutils when using the -y flag.
yum update binutils
This command will update binutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove binutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update binutils
This command will update binutils 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 binutils when using the -y flag.
yum info binutils
This command will show you core information about the binutils package.
yum deplist binutils
This command will show you the dependencies for binutils. 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 binutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on binutils. 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.