How To Install yum-langpacks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-langpacks.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. yum-langpacks.noarch is Langpacks plugin for yum

Introduction

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

What is `yum-langpacks.noarch`

Yum-langpacks is a plugin for YUM that looks for langpacks for your native language for packages you install.

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

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

sudo yum -y install yum-langpacks.noarch

How To Uninstall yum-langpacks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the yum-langpacks.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove yum-langpacks.noarch

yum-langpacks.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum_langpacks-0.4.2-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum_langpacks-0.4.2-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum_langpacks-0.4.2-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum_langpacks-0.4.2-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum_langpacks-0.4.2-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/langpacks.py
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/langpacks.pyc
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/langpacks.pyo
/usr/share/doc/yum-langpacks-0.4.2
/usr/share/doc/yum-langpacks-0.4.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/yum-langpacks-0.4.2/README
/usr/share/man/man8/yum-langpacks.8.gz

References

yum-langpacks.noarch website

Summary

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