How To Install nano.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nano.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. nano.x86_64 is A small text editor

Introduction

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

What is `nano.x86_64`

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

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

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

sudo yum -y install nano.x86_64

How To Uninstall nano.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove nano.x86_64

nano.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/nanorc
/usr/bin/nano
/usr/bin/rnano
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/README
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/nano.html
/usr/share/doc/nano-2.9.8/sample.nanorc
/usr/share/info/nano.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rnano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/nanorc.5.gz
/usr/share/nano
/usr/share/nano/asm.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/autoconf.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/awk.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/changelog.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/cmake.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/css.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/debian.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/default.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/elisp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/fortran.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/go.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/groff.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/guile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/java.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/javascript.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/json.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/lua.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/makefile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/man.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mgp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mutt.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanohelp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nftables.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/objc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ocaml.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/php.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/po.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/postgresql.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/pov.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/rust.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/spec.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tcl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tex.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/texinfo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/xml.nanorc

References

nano.x86_64 website

Summary

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