How To Install newt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install newt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is newt-devel.x86_64
The newt-devel package contains the header files and libraries necessary for developing applications which use newt. Newt is a development library for text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the slang library. Install newt-devel if you want to develop applications which will use newt.
We can use yum to install newt-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 newt-devel.x86_64.
Install newt-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 newt-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install newt-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall newt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the newt-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove newt-devel.x86_64
newt-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/newt.h
/usr/lib64/libnewt.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libnewt.pc
/usr/share/doc/newt-devel-0.52.15
/usr/share/doc/newt-devel-0.52.15/tutorial.sgml
/usr/share/doc/newt-devel-0.52.15/tutorial.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install newt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.