How To Install slang.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install slang.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. slang.x86_64 is The shared library for the S-Lang extension language

Introduction

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

What is `slang.x86_64`

S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang’s syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.

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

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

sudo yum -y install slang.x86_64

How To Uninstall slang.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove slang.x86_64

slang.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2
/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2.2.4
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/README
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/grammar.txt
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/slang.txt
/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/slangfun.txt

References

slang.x86_64 website

Summary

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