How To Install icoutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install icoutils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. icoutils.x86_64 is Utility for extracting and converting Microsoft icon and cursor

Introduction

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

What is `icoutils.x86_64`

The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables or libraries.

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

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

sudo yum -y install icoutils.x86_64

How To Uninstall icoutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove icoutils.x86_64

icoutils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/extresso
/usr/bin/genresscript
/usr/bin/icotool
/usr/bin/wrestool
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/README
/usr/share/doc/icoutils-0.31.3/TODO
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/extresso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genresscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icotool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wrestool.1.gz

References

icoutils.x86_64 website

Summary

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