How To Install libwps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwps.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libwps.x86_64 is A library for import of Microsoft Works documents

Introduction

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

What is `libwps.x86_64`

libwps is a library for import of Microsoft Works text documents, spreadsheets and (in a limited way) databases. Full list of supported formats is available at https

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

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

sudo yum -y install libwps.x86_64

How To Uninstall libwps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libwps.x86_64

libwps.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libwps-0.4.so.4
/usr/lib64/libwps-0.4.so.4.0.7
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwps-0.4.7/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libwps-0.4.7/COPYING.MPL

References

libwps.x86_64 website

Summary

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