How To Install uuid-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. uuid-devel.x86_64 is Development support for Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `uuid-devel.x86_64`

Development headers and libraries for OSSP uuid.

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

Install uuid-devel.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 uuid-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uuid-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall uuid-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the uuid-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove uuid-devel.x86_64

uuid-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/uuid-config
/usr/bin/uuid-config.64
/usr/include/uuid.h
/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ossp-uuid.pc
/usr/share/man/man1/uuid-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ossp-uuid.3.gz

References

uuid-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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