How To Install vala-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is vala-devel.x86_64
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. This package contains development files for vala. This is not necessary for using the vala compiler.
We can use yum to install vala-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 vala-devel.x86_64.
Install vala-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 vala-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vala-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall vala-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the vala-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove vala-devel.x86_64
vala-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/vala-0.40
/usr/include/vala-0.40/vala.h
/usr/include/vala-0.40/valagee.h
/usr/lib64/libvala-0.40.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvala-0.40.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.