How To Install boost-program-options.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-program-options.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. boost-program-options.i686 is Run-Time component of boost program_options library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-program-options.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is boost-program-options.i686

Run-Time support of boost program options library, which allows program developers to obtain (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and configuration file.

We can use yum to install boost-program-options.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-program-options.i686.

Install boost-program-options.i686 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 boost-program-options.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-program-options.i686

How To Uninstall boost-program-options.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the boost-program-options.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove boost-program-options.i686

boost-program-options.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-program-options-1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-program-options-1.53.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-program-options.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.