How To Install sqlite.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sqlite.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sqlite.x86_64 is Library that implements an embeddable SQL database engine

Introduction

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

What is `sqlite.x86_64`

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use. Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and flexibility of an SQL database without the administrative hassles of supporting a separate database server. Version 2 and version 3 binaries are named to permit each to be installed on a single host

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

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

sudo yum -y install sqlite.x86_64

How To Uninstall sqlite.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove sqlite.x86_64

sqlite.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/sqlite3
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
/usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.7.17
/usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.7.17/README
/usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz

References

sqlite.x86_64 website

Summary

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