How To Install pcre-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcre-tools.x86_64 is Auxiliary utilities for pcre

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcre-tools.x86_64`

Utilities demonstrating PCRE capabilities like pcregrep or pcretest.

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

Install pcre-tools.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 pcre-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcre-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcre-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcre-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcre-tools.x86_64

pcre-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pcregrep
/usr/bin/pcretest
/usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1.gz

References

pcre-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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