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

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sip-devel.x86_64 is Files needed to generate Python bindings for any C++ class library

Introduction

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

What is `sip-devel.x86_64`

This package contains files needed to generate Python bindings for any C++ classes library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install sip-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove sip-devel.x86_64

sip-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sip
/usr/include/python2.7/sip.h
/usr/share/man/man1/sip.1.gz
/usr/share/sip

References

sip-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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