How To Install amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-linux-extras.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. amazon-linux-extras.noarch is Command line tool for managing Amazon Linux Extras

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `amazon-linux-extras.noarch`

A tool for selective enabling of fresh not-as-stable software from specific, topical RPM repositories for Amazon Linux.

We can use yum to install amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amazon-linux-extras.noarch.

Install amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amazon-linux-extras.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amazon-linux-extras.noarch

How To Uninstall amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the amazon-linux-extras.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove amazon-linux-extras.noarch

amazon-linux-extras.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/update-motd.d/50-amazon-linux-extras-news
/usr/bin/amazon-linux-extras
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras-2.0.1-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras-2.0.1-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras-2.0.1-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras-2.0.1-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras-2.0.1-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__main__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/__main__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/cli.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/cli.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/cli.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/repo.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/repo.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/repo.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/software_catalog.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/software_catalog.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/amazon_linux_extras/software_catalog.pyo
/usr/share/doc/amazon-linux-extras-2.0.1
/usr/share/doc/amazon-linux-extras-2.0.1/README
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/amazon_linux_extras.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/amazon_linux_extras.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/amazon_linux_extras.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/amazon-linux-extras.1.gz
/var/cache/amzn2extras/catalog-cache-0

References

amazon-linux-extras.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amazon-linux-extras.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.