How To Install unique3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. unique3.x86_64 is Single instance support for applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `unique3.x86_64`

Unique is a library for writing single instance applications, that is applications that are run once and every further call to the same binary either exits immediately or sends a command to the running instance. This version of unique works with GTK+ 3.

We can use yum to install unique3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unique3.x86_64.

Install unique3.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 unique3.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unique3.x86_64

How To Uninstall unique3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the unique3.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove unique3.x86_64

unique3.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libunique-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libunique-3.0.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/unique3-3.0.2/README

References

unique3.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install unique3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.