How To Install gmp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gmp.x86_64 is A GNU arbitrary precision library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gmp.x86_64`

The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs’ most common inner loops, and it generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. Install the gmp package if you need a fast arbitrary precision library.

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

Install gmp.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 gmp.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gmp.x86_64

How To Uninstall gmp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gmp.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gmp.x86_64

gmp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.2.0.hmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.hmac
/usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10
/usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10.2.0
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so.4
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so.4.4.0
/usr/share/doc/gmp-6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gmp-6.0.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gmp-6.0.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/gmp-6.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/gmp-6.0.0/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gmp-6.0.0/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/gmp-6.0.0/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/licenses/gmp-6.0.0/COPYINGv3

References

gmp.x86_64 website

Summary

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