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libudev


Information about the package, libudev, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libudev package is designed for, Dynamic library to access udev device information.


Package Name:

libudev

Summary:

Dynamic library to access udev device information

Description:

This package contains the dynamic library libudev, which provides access to udev device information, and an interface to search devices in sysfs.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

147

Release:

2.73.el6_8.2

Size:

71 k

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

updates

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libudev


Control the libudev package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libudev

This command will install libudev on the server.

yum remove libudev

This command will un-install libudev on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libudev, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libudev

This command will un-install libudev 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 libudev when using the -y flag.

yum update libudev

This command will update libudev to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libudev, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libudev

This command will update libudev 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 libudev when using the -y flag.

yum info libudev

This command will show you core information about the libudev package.

yum deplist libudev

This command will show you the dependencies for libudev. 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 libudev

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libudev. 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.