How To Install compat-readline5-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-readline5-static.x86_64 is Static libraries for the readline library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `compat-readline5-static.x86_64`

The readline-static package contains the static version of the readline library.

We can use yum to install compat-readline5-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-readline5-static.x86_64.

Install compat-readline5-static.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 compat-readline5-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-readline5-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall compat-readline5-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the compat-readline5-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove compat-readline5-static.x86_64

compat-readline5-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/readline5/libhistory.a
/usr/lib64/readline5/libreadline.a

References

compat-readline5-static.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-readline5-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.