How To Install urlview.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. urlview.x86_64 is URL extractor/launcher

Introduction

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

What is `urlview.x86_64`

urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view a specific item.

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

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

sudo yum -y install urlview.x86_64

How To Uninstall urlview.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove urlview.x86_64

urlview.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/urlview.conf
/usr/bin/url_handler.sh
/usr/bin/urlview
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9/README
/usr/share/doc/urlview-0.9/sample.urlview
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.sh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/urlview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/urlview.conf.5.gz

References

urlview.x86_64 website

Summary

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