How To Install binutils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is binutils-devel.x86_64
This package contains BFD and opcodes static and dynamic libraries. The dynamic libraries are in this package, rather than a seperate base package because they are actually linker scripts that force the use of the static libraries. This is because the API of the BFD library is too unstable to be used dynamically. The static libraries are here because they are now needed by the dynamic libraries. Developers starting new projects are strongly encouraged to consider using libelf instead of BFD.
We can use yum to install binutils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install binutils-devel.x86_64.
Install binutils-devel.x86_64 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 binutils-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install binutils-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall binutils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the binutils-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove binutils-devel.x86_64
binutils-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/ansidecl.h
/usr/include/bfd.h
/usr/include/bfdlink.h
/usr/include/demangle.h
/usr/include/dis-asm.h
/usr/include/libiberty.h
/usr/include/plugin-api.h
/usr/include/symcat.h
/usr/lib64/libbfd.a
/usr/lib64/libbfd.so
/usr/lib64/libiberty.a
/usr/lib64/libopcodes.a
/usr/lib64/libopcodes.so
/usr/share/info/bfd.info.gz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.