How To Install tclx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclx.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tclx.x86_64 is Extensions for Tcl and Tk

Introduction

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

What is `tclx.x86_64`

Extended Tcl (TclX) is a set of extensions to the Tcl programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development. TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation and debugging tools.

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

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

sudo yum -y install tclx.x86_64

How To Uninstall tclx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove tclx.x86_64

tclx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/tclx-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/arrayprocs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/autoload.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/buildhelp.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/compat.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/convlib.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/edprocs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/events.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/fmath.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/forfile.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/globrecur.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/help.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/profrep.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/pushd.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/setfuncs.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/showproc.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/stringfile.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/tcllib.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.5/tclx8.4/tclx.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tclx-8.4.0
/usr/share/doc/tclx-8.4.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tclx-8.4.0/README
/usr/share/man/man3/ObjCmdWrite.3.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/TclX.n.gz

References

tclx.x86_64 website

Summary

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