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

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

Introduction

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

What is `gd-devel.x86_64`

The gd-devel package contains the development libraries and header files for gd, a graphics library for creating PNG and JPEG graphics.

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

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

sudo yum -y install gd-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove gd-devel.x86_64

gd-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gdlib-config
/usr/include/entities.h
/usr/include/gd.h
/usr/include/gd_io.h
/usr/include/gdcache.h
/usr/include/gdfontg.h
/usr/include/gdfontl.h
/usr/include/gdfontmb.h
/usr/include/gdfonts.h
/usr/include/gdfontt.h
/usr/include/gdfx.h
/usr/lib64/libgd.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gdlib.pc
/usr/share/doc/gd-devel-2.0.35
/usr/share/doc/gd-devel-2.0.35/index.html

References

gd-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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