How To Install xml-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. xml-common.noarch is Common XML catalog and DTD files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xml-common.noarch`

The xml-common is a subpackage of sgml-common which contains a collection XML catalogs that are useful for processing XML, but that don’t need to be included in main package.

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

Install xml-common.noarch 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 xml-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xml-common.noarch

How To Uninstall xml-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xml-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xml-common.noarch

xml-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sgml/docbook
/etc/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog
/etc/xml
/etc/xml/catalog
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xml-common-0.6.3/README
/usr/share/sgml
/usr/share/sgml/docbook
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog
/usr/share/xml
/usr/share/xml/xml.xsd

References

xml-common.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.