How To Install pkgconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pkgconfig.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pkgconfig.x86_64 is A tool for determining compilation options

Introduction

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

What is `pkgconfig.x86_64`

The pkgconfig tool determines compilation options. For each required library, it reads the configuration file and outputs the necessary compiler and linker flags.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pkgconfig.x86_64

How To Uninstall pkgconfig.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pkgconfig.x86_64

pkgconfig.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pkg-config
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig
/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1/README
/usr/share/doc/pkgconfig-0.27.1/pkg-config-guide.html
/usr/share/man/man1/pkg-config.1.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig

References

pkgconfig.x86_64 website

Summary

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