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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuv-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libuv-static.x86_64 is Platform layer for node.js - static library

Introduction

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

What is `libuv-static.x86_64`

Static library (.a) version of libuv.

We can use yum to install libuv-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 libuv-static.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libuv-static.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libuv-static.x86_64

libuv-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libuv.a

References

libuv-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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