How To Install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64
Ruby provides built-in support for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. For example 42**13 -> 1265437718438866624512 BigDecimal provides similar support for very large or very accurate floating point numbers. Decimal arithmetic is also useful for general calculation, because it provides the correct answers people expect–whereas normal binary floating point arithmetic often introduces subtle errors because of the conversion between base 10 and base 2.
We can use yum to install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64.
Install rubygem-bigdecimal.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 rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64
How To Uninstall rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64
rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/bigdecimal-1.2.0
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal.so
/usr/lib64/ruby/bigdecimal.so
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal/jacobian.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal/ludcmp.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal/math.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal/newton.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/bigdecimal-1.2.0/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb
/usr/share/gems/specifications/bigdecimal-1.2.0.gemspec
/usr/share/ruby/bigdecimal
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-bigdecimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.