How To Install minizip.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install minizip.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. minizip.x86_64 is Library for manipulation with .zip archives

Introduction

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

What is `minizip.x86_64`

Minizip is a library for manipulation with files from .zip archives.

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

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

sudo yum -y install minizip.x86_64

How To Uninstall minizip.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove minizip.x86_64

minizip.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libminizip.so.1
/usr/lib64/libminizip.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.7
/usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.7/MiniZip64_Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/minizip-1.2.7/MiniZip64_info.txt

References

minizip.x86_64 website

Summary

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