How To Install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is compat-readline5-devel.x86_64
The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to edit typed command lines. If you want to develop programs that will use the readline library, you need to have the readline-devel package installed. You also need to have the readline package installed.
We can use yum to install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64.
Install compat-readline5-devel.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 compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove compat-readline5-devel.x86_64
compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/readline5
/usr/include/readline5/readline
/usr/include/readline5/readline/chardefs.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/history.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/keymaps.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/readline.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/rlconf.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/rlstdc.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/rltypedefs.h
/usr/include/readline5/readline/tilde.h
/usr/lib64/readline5
/usr/lib64/readline5/libhistory.so
/usr/lib64/readline5/libreadline.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.