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

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-java.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-java.x86_64 is Java Protocol Buffers runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-java.x86_64`

This package contains Java Protocol Buffers runtime library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-java.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-java.x86_64

protobuf-java.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/protobuf-java-2.5.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-java-2.5.0/AddPerson.java
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-java-2.5.0/ListPeople.java
/usr/share/java/protobuf.jar
/usr/share/maven-effective-poms/JPP-protobuf.pom
/usr/share/maven-fragments/protobuf.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/JPP-protobuf.pom

References

protobuf-java.x86_64 website

Summary

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