How To Install pinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is pinfo.x86_64

Pinfo is an info file (or man page) viewer with a user interface similar to the Lynx Web browser’s interface. Pinfo supports searching using regular expressions, and is based on the ncurses library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pinfo.x86_64

How To Uninstall pinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pinfo.x86_64

pinfo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pinforc
/usr/bin/pinfo
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/README
/usr/share/doc/pinfo-0.6.10/TECHSTUFF
/usr/share/info/pinfo.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/pinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pinfo.1.gz

References

• pinfo.x86_64 website

Summary

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