Information about the package, glibc-common, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The glibc-common package is designed for, Common binaries and locale data for glibc.
Package Name:
glibc-common
Summary:
Common binaries and locale data for glibc
Description:
The glibc-common package includes common binaries for the GNU libc libraries, as well as national language (locale) support.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.12
Release:
1.209.el6_9.2
Size:
107 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Control the glibc-common package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install glibc-common
This command will install glibc-common on the server.
yum remove glibc-common
This command will un-install glibc-common on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glibc-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove glibc-common
This command will un-install glibc-common 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 glibc-common when using the -y flag.
yum update glibc-common
This command will update glibc-common to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glibc-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update glibc-common
This command will update glibc-common 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 glibc-common when using the -y flag.
yum info glibc-common
This command will show you core information about the glibc-common package.
yum deplist glibc-common
This command will show you the dependencies for glibc-common. 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 glibc-common
This command will check if there is an update waiting on glibc-common. 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.