How To Install cmake3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake3.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cmake3.x86_64 is Cross-platform make system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cmake3.x86_64`

CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated requiring system configuration, preprocessor generation, code generation, and template instantiation.

We can use yum to install cmake3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cmake3.x86_64.

Install cmake3.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 cmake3.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmake3.x86_64

How To Uninstall cmake3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cmake3.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cmake3.x86_64

cmake3.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ccmake3
/usr/bin/cmake3
/usr/bin/cpack3
/usr/bin/ctest3
/usr/lib64/cmake3
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/COPYING_cmcurl
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/COPYING_cmexpat
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/COPYING_cmlibarchive
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/COPYING_cmliblzma
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/COPYING_cmlibrhash
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/Copyright.txt
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/Copyright.txt_KWIML
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/Copyright.txt_cmcompress
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/Copyright.txt_cmzlib
/usr/share/licenses/cmake3-3.13.1/Copyright.txt_kwsys
/usr/share/man/man1/ccmake3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cmake3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cpack3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ctest3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-buildsystem.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-commands.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-compile-features.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-developer.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-env-variables.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-generator-expressions.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-generators.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-language.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-modules.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-packages.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-policies.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-properties.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-qt.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-server.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-toolchains.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cmake3-variables.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/cpack-generators.7.gz

References

cmake3.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.