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perl-Archive-Extract


Information about the package, perl-Archive-Extract, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Archive-Extract package is designed for, Generic archive extracting mechanism.


Package Name:

perl-Archive-Extract

Summary:

Generic archive extracting mechanism

Description:

Archive::Extract is a generic archive extraction mechanism.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.38

Release:

144.el6

Size:

52 k

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

base

Licence:

GPL+ or Artistic



Handy Yum Commands for perl-Archive-Extract


Control the perl-Archive-Extract package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install perl-Archive-Extract

This command will install perl-Archive-Extract on the server.

yum remove perl-Archive-Extract

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

yum -y remove perl-Archive-Extract

This command will un-install perl-Archive-Extract 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 perl-Archive-Extract when using the -y flag.

yum update perl-Archive-Extract

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

yum -y update perl-Archive-Extract

This command will update perl-Archive-Extract 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 perl-Archive-Extract when using the -y flag.

yum info perl-Archive-Extract

This command will show you core information about the perl-Archive-Extract package.

yum deplist perl-Archive-Extract

This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Archive-Extract. 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 perl-Archive-Extract

This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Archive-Extract. 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.