How To Install libsoup.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsoup.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsoup.x86_64 is Soup, an HTTP library implementation

Introduction

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

What is `libsoup.x86_64`

Libsoup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part of a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation called Soup, but the SOAP and non-SOAP parts have now been split into separate packages. libsoup uses the Glib main loop and is designed to work well with GTK applications. This enables GNOME applications to access HTTP servers on the network in a completely asynchronous fashion, very similar to the Gtk+ programming model (a synchronous operation mode is also supported for those who want it).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsoup.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsoup.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsoup.x86_64

libsoup.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Soup-2.4.typelib
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/SoupGNOME-2.4.typelib
/usr/lib64/libsoup-2.4.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsoup-2.4.so.1.8.0
/usr/lib64/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1.8.0
/usr/share/doc/libsoup-2.56.0
/usr/share/doc/libsoup-2.56.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libsoup-2.56.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libsoup-2.56.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/libsoup-2.56.0
/usr/share/licenses/libsoup-2.56.0/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo

References

libsoup.x86_64 website

Summary

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