How To Install popt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install popt-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. popt-static.x86_64 is Static library for parsing command line parameters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install popt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `popt-static.x86_64`

The popt-static package includes static libraries of the popt library. Install it if you need to link statically with libpopt.

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

Install popt-static.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 popt-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install popt-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall popt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the popt-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove popt-static.x86_64

popt-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpopt.a

References

popt-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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