How To Install ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 is Minimal XML parser and printer for OCaml

Introduction

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

What is `ocaml-xml-light.x86_64`

Xml-Light is a minimal XML parser & printer for OCaml. It provides functions to parse an XML document into an OCaml data structure, work with it, and print it back to an XML document. It support also DTD parsing and checking, and is entirely written in OCaml, hence it does not require additional C library.

We can use yum to install ocaml-xml-light.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-xml-light.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install ocaml-xml-light.x86_64

How To Uninstall ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove ocaml-xml-light.x86_64

ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/dtd.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/xml-light.cma
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/xml.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/xmlParser.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/xml_lexer.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/xml-light/xml_parser.cmi
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-xml-light-2.3
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-xml-light-2.3/README

References

ocaml-xml-light.x86_64 website

Summary

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