How To Install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 is Minimal language packs for glibc.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64`

This is a Meta package that is used to install minimal language packs. This package ensures you can use C, POSIX, or C.UTF-8 locales, but nothing else. It is designed for assembling a minimal system.

We can use yum to install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64.

Install glibc-minimal-langpack.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 glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64

How To Uninstall glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64

glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

References

glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-minimal-langpack.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.