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

In this tutorial we learn how to install flex-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. flex-devel.x86_64 is Libraries for flex scanner generator

Introduction

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

What is `flex-devel.x86_64`

This package contains the library with default implementations of main' and yywrap’ functions that the client binary can choose to use instead of implementing their own.

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

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

sudo yum -y install flex-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove flex-devel.x86_64

flex-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfl.a
/usr/lib64/libfl_pic.a
/usr/lib64/libl.a

References

flex-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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