Information about the package, libtool, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libtool package is designed for, The GNU Portable Library Tool.
Package Name:
libtool
Summary:
The GNU Portable Library Tool
Description:
GNU Libtool is a set of shell scripts which automatically configure UNIX and UNIX-like systems to generically build shared libraries. Libtool provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using shared libraries. If you are developing programs which will use shared libraries, but do not use the rest of the GNU Autotools (such as GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake), you should install the libtool package. The libtool package also includes all files needed to integrate the GNU Portable Library Tool (libtool) and the GNU Libtool Dynamic Module Loader (ltdl) into a package built using the GNU Autotools (including GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.6
Release:
15.5.el6
Size:
1.9 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and GFDL
Control the libtool package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libtool
This command will install libtool on the server.
yum remove libtool
This command will un-install libtool on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtool, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libtool
This command will un-install libtool 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 libtool when using the -y flag.
yum update libtool
This command will update libtool to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libtool, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libtool
This command will update libtool 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 libtool when using the -y flag.
yum info libtool
This command will show you core information about the libtool package.
yum deplist libtool
This command will show you the dependencies for libtool. 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 libtool
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libtool. 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.