How To Install cmake-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake-gui.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cmake-gui.x86_64 is Qt GUI for cmake

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cmake-gui.x86_64`

The cmake-gui package contains the Qt based GUI for CMake.

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

Install cmake-gui.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 cmake-gui.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmake-gui.x86_64

How To Uninstall cmake-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cmake-gui.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cmake-gui.x86_64

cmake-gui.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cmake-gui
/usr/share/applications/CMake.desktop
/usr/share/doc/cmake-2.8.12.2/cmake-gui.docbook
/usr/share/doc/cmake-2.8.12.2/cmake-gui.html
/usr/share/doc/cmake-2.8.12.2/cmake-gui.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/cmake-gui.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/cmakecache.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/CMakeSetup32.png

References

cmake-gui.x86_64 website

Summary

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