Information about the package, zsh, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The zsh package is designed for, A powerful interactive shell.
Package Name:
zsh
Summary:
A powerful interactive shell
Description:
The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.3.11
Release:
4.el6.centos.2
Size:
5.1 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
BSD
Control the zsh package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install zsh
This command will install zsh on the server.
yum remove zsh
This command will un-install zsh on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove zsh, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove zsh
This command will un-install zsh 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 zsh when using the -y flag.
yum update zsh
This command will update zsh to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove zsh, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update zsh
This command will update zsh 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 zsh when using the -y flag.
yum info zsh
This command will show you core information about the zsh package.
yum deplist zsh
This command will show you the dependencies for zsh. 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 zsh
This command will check if there is an update waiting on zsh. 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.