How To Install go-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install go-filesystem.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. go-filesystem.x86_64 is Directories used by Go packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install go-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `go-filesystem.x86_64`

This package contains the basic directory layout used by Go packages.

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

Install go-filesystem.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 go-filesystem.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install go-filesystem.x86_64

How To Uninstall go-filesystem.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the go-filesystem.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove go-filesystem.x86_64

go-filesystem.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/gocode
/usr/share/gocode/src

References

go-filesystem.x86_64 website

Summary

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