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

In this tutorial we learn how to install librdkafka-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. librdkafka-devel.x86_64 is The Apache Kafka C library (Development Environment)

Introduction

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

What is librdkafka-devel.x86_64

librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, containing both Producer and Consumer support. This package contains headers and libraries required to build applications using librdkafka.

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

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

sudo yum -y install librdkafka-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove librdkafka-devel.x86_64

librdkafka-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/librdkafka
/usr/include/librdkafka/rdkafka.h
/usr/include/librdkafka/rdkafkacpp.h
/usr/lib64/librdkafka++.so
/usr/lib64/librdkafka.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/rdkafka++-static.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/rdkafka++.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/rdkafka-static.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/rdkafka.pc

References

Summary

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