How To Install SDL2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. SDL2.x86_64 is Cross-platform multimedia library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `SDL2.x86_64`

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.

We can use yum to install SDL2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install SDL2.x86_64.

Install SDL2.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 SDL2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SDL2.x86_64

How To Uninstall SDL2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the SDL2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove SDL2.x86_64

SDL2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libSDL2-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.10.0
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/BUGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/SDL2-2.0.10/README-SDL.txt
/usr/share/licenses/SDL2-2.0.10
/usr/share/licenses/SDL2-2.0.10/COPYING.txt

References

SDL2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install SDL2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.