How To Install mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64 is Development files for MariaDB as an embeddable library

Introduction

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

What is mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. This package contains files needed for developing and testing with the embedded version of the MariaDB server. MariaDB is a community developed branch of MySQL.

We can use yum to install mariadb-embedded-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 mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64

mariadb-embedded-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/mysql_client_test_embedded
/usr/bin/mysqltest_embedded
/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqld.so
/usr/share/man/man1/mysql_client_test_embedded.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mysqltest_embedded.1.gz

References

Summary

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