How To Install ocaml-extlib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-extlib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ocaml-extlib.x86_64 is OCaml ExtLib additions to the standard library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-extlib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ocaml-extlib.x86_64`

ExtLib is a project aiming at providing a complete - yet small - standard library for the OCaml programming language. The purpose of this library is to add new functions to OCaml Standard Library modules, to modify some functions in order to get better performances or more safety (tail-recursive) but also to provide new modules which should be useful for the average OCaml programmer.

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

Install ocaml-extlib.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 ocaml-extlib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-extlib.x86_64

How To Uninstall ocaml-extlib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ocaml-extlib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ocaml-extlib.x86_64

ocaml-extlib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/IO.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/base64.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/bitSet.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/dllist.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/dynArray.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/enum.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extArray.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extHashtbl.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extLib.cma
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extLib.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extList.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/extString.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/global.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/optParse.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/option.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/pMap.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/refList.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/std.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/uChar.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/uTF8.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/extlib/unzip.cmi
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-extlib-1.5.3
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-extlib-1.5.3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-extlib-1.5.3/README.txt

References

ocaml-extlib.x86_64 website

Summary

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