How To Install binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. binutils.x86_64 is A GNU collection of binary utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `binutils.x86_64`

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).

We can use yum to install binutils.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.x86_64.

Install binutils.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install binutils.x86_64

How To Uninstall binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the binutils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove binutils.x86_64

binutils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/addr2line
/usr/bin/ar
/usr/bin/as
/usr/bin/c++filt
/usr/bin/dwp
/usr/bin/elfedit
/usr/bin/gprof
/usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/ld.bfd
/usr/bin/ld.gold
/usr/bin/nm
/usr/bin/objcopy
/usr/bin/objdump
/usr/bin/ranlib
/usr/bin/readelf
/usr/bin/size
/usr/bin/strings
/usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib64/libbfd-2.29.1-31.amzn2.so
/usr/lib64/libopcodes-2.29.1-31.amzn2.so
/usr/share/doc/binutils-2.29.1
/usr/share/doc/binutils-2.29.1/README
/usr/share/info/as.info.gz
/usr/share/info/binutils.info.gz
/usr/share/info/gprof.info.gz
/usr/share/info/ld.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/binutils-2.29.1
/usr/share/licenses/binutils-2.29.1/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/binutils-2.29.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/binutils-2.29.1/COPYING3
/usr/share/licenses/binutils-2.29.1/COPYING3.LIB
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gprof.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/bfd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gas.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gold.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/opcodes.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/binutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ld.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/addr2line.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/as.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/c++filt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/elfedit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gprof.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/objcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/objdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ranlib.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/readelf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/size.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/strip.1.gz

References

binutils.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.