How To Install file-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install file-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. file-static.x86_64 is Static library for file development

Introduction

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

What is `file-static.x86_64`

The file-static package contains the static version of the libmagic library.

We can use yum to install file-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 file-static.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install file-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall file-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove file-static.x86_64

file-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmagic.a

References

file-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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