How To Install protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 is Elisp source files for Google protobuf Emacs mode

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64`

This package contains the elisp source files for protobuf-emacs under GNU Emacs. You do not need to install this package to use protobuf-emacs.

We can use yum to install protobuf-emacs-el.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-emacs-el.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64

How To Uninstall protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64

protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/protobuf-mode.el

References

protobuf-emacs-el.x86_64 website

Summary

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