How To Install boost-date-time.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-date-time.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. boost-date-time.x86_64 is Run-Time component of boost date-time library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-date-time.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `boost-date-time.x86_64`

Run-Time support for Boost Date Time, set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.

We can use yum to install boost-date-time.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-date-time.x86_64.

Install boost-date-time.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 boost-date-time.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-date-time.x86_64

How To Uninstall boost-date-time.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the boost-date-time.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove boost-date-time.x86_64

boost-date-time.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libboost_date_time-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_date_time.so.1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-date-time-1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-date-time-1.53.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

boost-date-time.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-date-time.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.