How To Install pth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pth.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pth.x86_64 is The GNU Portable Threads library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pth.x86_64`

Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (“multithreading”) inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it’s own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

We can use yum to install pth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pth.x86_64.

Install pth.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 pth.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pth.x86_64

How To Uninstall pth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pth.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pth.x86_64

pth.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpth.so.20
/usr/lib64/libpth.so.20.0.27
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/README
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/SUPPORT
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/TESTS
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7/USERS

References

pth.x86_64 website

Summary

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