How To Install orc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install orc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. orc.x86_64 is The Oil Run-time Compiler

Introduction

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

What is `orc.x86_64`

Orc is a library and set of tools for compiling and executing very simple programs that operate on arrays of data. The “language” is a generic assembly language that represents many of the features available in SIMD architectures, including saturated addition and subtraction, and many arithmetic operations.

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

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

sudo yum -y install orc.x86_64

How To Uninstall orc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove orc.x86_64

orc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/orc-bugreport
/usr/lib64/liborc-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/liborc-0.4.so.0.25.0
/usr/lib64/liborc-test-0.4.so.0
/usr/lib64/liborc-test-0.4.so.0.25.0
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/orc-0.4.26/README

References

orc.x86_64 website

Summary

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