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

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

Introduction

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

What is `flex-doc.x86_64`

This package contains documentation for flex scanner generator in plain text and PDF formats.

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

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

sudo yum -y install flex-doc.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove flex-doc.x86_64

flex-doc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/ONEWS
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/README
/usr/share/doc/flex-doc-2.5.37/flex.pdf

References

flex-doc.x86_64 website

Summary

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