How To Install hawkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hawkey.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. hawkey.x86_64 is Library providing simplified C and Python API to libsolv

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hawkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `hawkey.x86_64`

A Library providing simplified C and Python API to libsolv.

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

Install hawkey.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 hawkey.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hawkey.x86_64

How To Uninstall hawkey.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the hawkey.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove hawkey.x86_64

hawkey.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libhawkey.so.2
/usr/share/doc/hawkey-0.6.3
/usr/share/doc/hawkey-0.6.3/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/hawkey-0.6.3
/usr/share/licenses/hawkey-0.6.3/COPYING

References

hawkey.x86_64 website

Summary

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