How To Install boost-program-options.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is boost-program-options.x86_64

Run-Time support of boost program options library, which allows program developers to obtain (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and configuration file.

We can use yum to install boost-program-options.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-program-options.x86_64.

Install boost-program-options.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-program-options.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-program-options.x86_64

How To Uninstall boost-program-options.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the boost-program-options.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove boost-program-options.x86_64

boost-program-options.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libboost_program_options-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_program_options.so.1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-program-options-1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-program-options-1.53.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt

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Summary

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