How To Install libmetalink.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetalink.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmetalink.x86_64 is Metalink library written in C

Introduction

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

What is `libmetalink.x86_64`

libmetalink is a Metalink C library. It adds Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files to programs written in C.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmetalink.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmetalink.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmetalink.x86_64

libmetalink.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmetalink.so.3
/usr/lib64/libmetalink.so.3.1.0
/usr/share/doc/libmetalink-0.1.3
/usr/share/doc/libmetalink-0.1.3/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmetalink-0.1.3
/usr/share/licenses/libmetalink-0.1.3/COPYING

References

libmetalink.x86_64 website

Summary

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