How To Install giflib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. giflib-devel.x86_64 is Development tools for programs using the giflib library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is giflib-devel.x86_64

The giflib-devel package includes header files, libraries necessary for developing programs which use the giflib library to load and save GIF format image files. It contains the documentation of the giflib library, too.

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

Install giflib-devel.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 giflib-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install giflib-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall giflib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the giflib-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove giflib-devel.x86_64

giflib-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/gif_lib.h
/usr/lib64/libgif.so
/usr/lib64/libungif.so
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/GifFileType.png
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2bgi.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2epsn.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2herc.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2iris.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2ps.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2rgb.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2rle.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif2x11.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif89.txt
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gif_lib.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifasm.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifbg.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifburst.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifclip.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifclrmp.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifcolor.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifcomb.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifcompose.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/giffiltr.c
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/giffiltr.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/giffix.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifflip.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifhisto.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifinter.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifinto.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifovly.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifpos.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifrotat.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifrsize.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifspnge.c
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifspnge.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/giftext.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/gifwedge.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/icon2gif.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/index.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/liberror.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/lzgif.txt
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/raw2gif.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/rgb2gif.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/rle2gif.html
/usr/share/doc/giflib-devel-4.1.6/text2gif.html

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Summary

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