How To Install expect-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install expect-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. expect-devel.x86_64 is A program-script interaction and testing utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install expect-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `expect-devel.x86_64`

Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. This package contains development files for the expect library.

We can use yum to install expect-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 expect-devel.x86_64.

Install expect-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 expect-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install expect-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall expect-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the expect-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove expect-devel.x86_64

expect-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/expect.h
/usr/include/expect_comm.h
/usr/include/expect_tcl.h
/usr/include/tcldbg.h
/usr/share/man/man3/libexpect.3.gz

References

expect-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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