How To Install evince-dvi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-dvi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. evince-dvi.x86_64 is Evince backend for dvi files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-dvi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `evince-dvi.x86_64`

This package contains a backend to let evince display dvi files.

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

Install evince-dvi.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 evince-dvi.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install evince-dvi.x86_64

How To Uninstall evince-dvi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the evince-dvi.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove evince-dvi.x86_64

evince-dvi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/evince/4/backends/dvidocument.evince-backend
/usr/lib64/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so
/usr/share/metainfo/evince-dvidocument.metainfo.xml

References

evince-dvi.x86_64 website

Summary

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