How To Install expat-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install expat-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. expat-static.x86_64 is expat XML parser static library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install expat-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `expat-static.x86_64`

The expat-static package contains the static version of the expat library. Install it if you need to link statically with expat.

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

Install expat-static.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 expat-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install expat-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall expat-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the expat-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove expat-static.x86_64

expat-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libexpat.a

References

expat-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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