How To Install devhelp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install devhelp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. devhelp.x86_64 is API documentation browser

Introduction

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

What is `devhelp.x86_64`

Devhelp is an API documentation browser for the GNOME desktop. It works natively with API documentation generated by gtk-doc.

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

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

sudo yum -y install devhelp.x86_64

How To Uninstall devhelp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove devhelp.x86_64

devhelp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/devhelp
/usr/lib64/gedit
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.plugin
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.py
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.pyc
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.pyo
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Devhelp.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Devhelp.service
/usr/share/devhelp
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.css
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.js
/usr/share/devhelp/books
/usr/share/doc/devhelp-3.28.1
/usr/share/doc/devhelp-3.28.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp-3.28.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp-3.28.1/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/devhelp-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp-3.28.1
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp-3.28.1/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/devhelp.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Devhelp.appdata.xml

References

devhelp.x86_64 website

Summary

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