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

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-devel.x86_64 is Protocol Buffers C++ headers and libraries

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-devel.x86_64`

This package contains Protocol Buffers compiler for all languages and C++ headers and libraries

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

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-devel.x86_64

protobuf-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/google
/usr/include/google/protobuf
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/code_generator.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/command_line_interface.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/cpp
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/cpp/cpp_generator.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/importer.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/java
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/java/java_generator.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/parser.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.pb.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.proto
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/python
/usr/include/google/protobuf/compiler/python/python_generator.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/descriptor.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/descriptor.pb.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto
/usr/include/google/protobuf/descriptor_database.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/dynamic_message.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/extension_set.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/generated_enum_reflection.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/generated_message_reflection.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/generated_message_util.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/coded_stream.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/gzip_stream.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/printer.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/tokenizer.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream_impl.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream_impl_lite.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/message.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/message_lite.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/reflection_ops.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/repeated_field.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/service.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_arm_gcc.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_arm_qnx.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_atomicword_compat.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_generic_gcc.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_macosx.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_mips_gcc.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_pnacl.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_x86_gcc.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/atomicops_internals_x86_msvc.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/common.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/once.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/platform_macros.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/template_util.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/stubs/type_traits.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/text_format.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/unknown_field_set.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/wire_format.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/wire_format_lite.h
/usr/include/google/protobuf/wire_format_lite_inl.h
/usr/lib64/libprotobuf.so
/usr/lib64/libprotoc.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/protobuf.pc
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0/add_person.cc
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0/addressbook.proto
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-devel-2.5.0/list_people.cc

References

protobuf-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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