How To Install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-readline5-devel.x86_64 is Files needed to develop programs which use the readline library

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.