Information about the package, libgcrypt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libgcrypt package is designed for, A general-purpose cryptography library.
Package Name:
libgcrypt
Summary:
A general-purpose cryptography library
Description:
Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.5
Release:
12.el6_8
Size:
524 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libgcrypt package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libgcrypt
This command will install libgcrypt on the server.
yum remove libgcrypt
This command will un-install libgcrypt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libgcrypt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libgcrypt
This command will un-install libgcrypt 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 libgcrypt when using the -y flag.
yum update libgcrypt
This command will update libgcrypt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libgcrypt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libgcrypt
This command will update libgcrypt 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 libgcrypt when using the -y flag.
yum info libgcrypt
This command will show you core information about the libgcrypt package.
yum deplist libgcrypt
This command will show you the dependencies for libgcrypt. 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 libgcrypt
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libgcrypt. 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.