How To Install libfdt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfdt-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libfdt-static.x86_64 is Static version of device tree library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfdt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libfdt-static.x86_64`

This package provides the static library of libfdt

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

Install libfdt-static.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 libfdt-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libfdt-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libfdt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libfdt-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libfdt-static.x86_64

libfdt-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfdt.a

References

libfdt-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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