How To Install protobuf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is protobuf.x86_64
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats. Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
We can use yum
to install protobuf.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.x86_64.
Install protobuf.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.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install protobuf.x86_64
How To Uninstall protobuf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the protobuf.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove protobuf.x86_64
protobuf.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/libprotobuf.so.8
/usr/lib64/libprotobuf.so.8.0.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-2.5.0
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-2.5.0/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-2.5.0/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-2.5.0/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/protobuf-2.5.0/README.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.