How To Install protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 is Protocol Buffers C compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64`

This package contains a modified version of the Protocol Buffers compiler for the C programming language called protoc-c.

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

Install protobuf-c-compiler.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 protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64

How To Uninstall protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64

protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/protoc-c

References

protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-c-compiler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.