How To Install rarian.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is rarian.x86_64

Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rarian.x86_64

How To Uninstall rarian.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove rarian.x86_64

rarian.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian-0.8.1/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml

References

• rarian.x86_64 website

Summary

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