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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtar-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libtar-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libtar

Introduction

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

What is `libtar-devel.x86_64`

The libtar-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use libtar.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libtar-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libtar-devel.x86_64

libtar-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libtar.h
/usr/include/libtar_listhash.h
/usr/lib64/libtar.so
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISBLK.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISCHR.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISDIR.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISFIFO.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISLNK.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISLONGLINK.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISLONGNAME.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISREG.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/TH_ISSYM.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_add.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_del.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_free.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_getkey.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_next.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_prev.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_hash_search.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_add.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_add_str.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_del.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_dup.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_free.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_merge.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_next.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_prev.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libtar_list_search.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_append_eof.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_append_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_append_regfile.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_append_tree.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_block_read.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_block_write.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_close.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_all.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_blockdev.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_chardev.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_dir.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_fifo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_file.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_glob.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_hardlink.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_regfile.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_extract_symlink.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_fdopen.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_open.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_set_file_perms.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/tar_skip_regfile.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_finish.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_crc.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_devmajor.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_devminor.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_gid.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_linkname.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_mode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_mtime.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_pathname.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_size.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_get_uid.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_print.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_print_long_ls.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_read.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_device.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_from_stat.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_group.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_link.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_mode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_path.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_type.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_set_user.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/th_write.3.gz

References

libtar-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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