Information about the package, freetype-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freetype-devel package is designed for, FreeType development libraries and header files.
Package Name:
freetype-devel
Summary:
FreeType development libraries and header files
Description:
The freetype-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the FreeType font rendering engine. Install freetype-devel if you want to develop programs which will use FreeType.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.3.11
Release:
17.el6
Size:
2.3 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
FTL or GPLv2+
Control the freetype-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install freetype-devel
This command will install freetype-devel on the server.
yum remove freetype-devel
This command will un-install freetype-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetype-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove freetype-devel
This command will un-install freetype-devel 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 freetype-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update freetype-devel
This command will update freetype-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freetype-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update freetype-devel
This command will update freetype-devel 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 freetype-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info freetype-devel
This command will show you core information about the freetype-devel package.
yum deplist freetype-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for freetype-devel. 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 freetype-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on freetype-devel. 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.