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

In this tutorial we learn how to install pycairo-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pycairo-devel.x86_64 is Libraries and headers for pycairo

Introduction

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

What is `pycairo-devel.x86_64`

This package contains files required to build wrappers for cairo add-on libraries so that they interoperate with pycairo.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pycairo-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove pycairo-devel.x86_64

pycairo-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/pycairo
/usr/include/pycairo/pycairo.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pycairo.pc

References

pycairo-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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