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

In this tutorial we learn how to install file-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. file-devel.x86_64 is Libraries and header files for file development

Introduction

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

What is `file-devel.x86_64`

The file-devel package contains the header files and libmagic library necessary for developing programs using libmagic.

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

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

sudo yum -y install file-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove file-devel.x86_64

file-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/magic.h
/usr/lib64/libmagic.so
/usr/share/man/man3/libmagic.3.gz

References

file-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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