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

Introduction

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

What is libconfig-devel.x86_64

Development libraries and headers for developing software against libconfig.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libconfig-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libconfig-devel.x86_64

libconfig-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libconfig.h
/usr/include/libconfig.h++
/usr/lib64/libconfig++.so
/usr/lib64/libconfig.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libconfig++.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libconfig.pc
/usr/share/doc/libconfig
/usr/share/doc/libconfig/libconfig.pdf
/usr/share/info/libconfig.info.gz

References

• libconfig-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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