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

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

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-compiler.x86_64`

This package contains Protocol Buffers compiler for all programming languages

We can use yum to install protobuf-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-compiler.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-compiler.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-compiler.x86_64

protobuf-compiler.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/protoc
/usr/lib64/libprotoc.so.8
/usr/lib64/libprotoc.so.8.0.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-compiler-2.5.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-compiler-2.5.0/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-compiler-2.5.0/README.txt

References

protobuf-compiler.x86_64 website

Summary

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