How To Install clang-tools-extra.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-tools-extra.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. clang-tools-extra.x86_64 is Extra tools for clang

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-tools-extra.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `clang-tools-extra.x86_64`

A set of extra tools built using Clang’s tooling API.

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

Install clang-tools-extra.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 clang-tools-extra.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clang-tools-extra.x86_64

How To Uninstall clang-tools-extra.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the clang-tools-extra.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove clang-tools-extra.x86_64

clang-tools-extra.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/c-index-test
/usr/bin/clang-apply-replacements
/usr/bin/clang-change-namespace
/usr/bin/clang-check
/usr/bin/clang-doc
/usr/bin/clang-extdef-mapping
/usr/bin/clang-format
/usr/bin/clang-include-fixer
/usr/bin/clang-move
/usr/bin/clang-offload-bundler
/usr/bin/clang-offload-wrapper
/usr/bin/clang-query
/usr/bin/clang-refactor
/usr/bin/clang-rename
/usr/bin/clang-reorder-fields
/usr/bin/clang-scan-deps
/usr/bin/clang-tidy
/usr/bin/clangd
/usr/bin/diagtool
/usr/bin/find-all-symbols
/usr/bin/hmaptool
/usr/bin/modularize
/usr/bin/pp-trace
/usr/share/clang/clang-format-diff.py
/usr/share/clang/clang-format.py
/usr/share/clang/clang-include-fixer.py
/usr/share/clang/clang-rename.py
/usr/share/clang/clang-tidy-diff.py
/usr/share/clang/run-clang-tidy.py
/usr/share/clang/run-find-all-symbols.py
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/clang-format.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/clang-include-fixer.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/clang-rename.el
/usr/share/man/man1/diagtool.1.gz

References

clang-tools-extra.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-tools-extra.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.