How To Install boost-wave.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-wave.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. boost-wave.x86_64 is Run-Time component of boost C99/C++ pre-processing library

Introduction

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

What is `boost-wave.x86_64`

Run-Time support for the Boost.Wave library, a Standards conforming, and highly configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++ pre-processor functionality.

We can use yum to install boost-wave.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-wave.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install boost-wave.x86_64

How To Uninstall boost-wave.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove boost-wave.x86_64

boost-wave.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libboost_wave-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_wave.so.1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-wave-1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-wave-1.53.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

boost-wave.x86_64 website

Summary

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