How To Install swig-gdb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install swig-gdb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. swig-gdb.x86_64 is Commands for easier debugging of SWIG

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install swig-gdb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is swig-gdb.x86_64

This package contains file with commands for easier debugging of SWIG in gdb.

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

Install swig-gdb.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 swig-gdb.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swig-gdb.x86_64

How To Uninstall swig-gdb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the swig-gdb.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove swig-gdb.x86_64

swig-gdb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/swig/gdb
/usr/share/swig/gdb/swig.gdb

References

Summary

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