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

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gmp-devel.x86_64 is Development tools for the GNU MP arbitrary precision library

Introduction

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

What is gmp-devel.x86_64

The libraries, header files and documentation for using the GNU MP arbitrary precision library in applications. If you want to develop applications which will use the GNU MP library, you’ll need to install the gmp-devel package. You’ll also need to install the gmp package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install gmp-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove gmp-devel.x86_64

gmp-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/gmp-mparam-x86_64.h
/usr/include/gmp-mparam.h
/usr/include/gmp-x86_64.h
/usr/include/gmp.h
/usr/include/gmpxx.h
/usr/lib64/libgmp.so
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so
/usr/share/info/gmp.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/gmp.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/gmp.info.gz

References

Summary

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