How To Install ppp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ppp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is ppp-devel.x86_64

This package contains the header files for building plugins for ppp.

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

Install ppp-devel.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 ppp-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ppp-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall ppp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ppp-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ppp-devel.x86_64

ppp-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/pppd
/usr/include/pppd/cbcp.h
/usr/include/pppd/ccp.h
/usr/include/pppd/chap-new.h
/usr/include/pppd/chap_ms.h
/usr/include/pppd/eap-tls.h
/usr/include/pppd/eap.h
/usr/include/pppd/ecp.h
/usr/include/pppd/eui64.h
/usr/include/pppd/fsm.h
/usr/include/pppd/ipcp.h
/usr/include/pppd/ipv6cp.h
/usr/include/pppd/ipxcp.h
/usr/include/pppd/lcp.h
/usr/include/pppd/magic.h
/usr/include/pppd/md4.h
/usr/include/pppd/md5.h
/usr/include/pppd/patchlevel.h
/usr/include/pppd/pathnames.h
/usr/include/pppd/pppcrypt.h
/usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
/usr/include/pppd/session.h
/usr/include/pppd/sha1.h
/usr/include/pppd/spinlock.h
/usr/include/pppd/tdb.h
/usr/include/pppd/upap.h
/usr/share/doc/ppp-devel-2.4.5
/usr/share/doc/ppp-devel-2.4.5/PLUGINS

References

• ppp-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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