How To Install gnutls-c++.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-c++.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnutls-c++.x86_64 is The C++ interface to GnuTLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-c++.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gnutls-c++.x86_64

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and other required structures. This package contains the C++ interface for the GnuTLS library.

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

Install gnutls-c++.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 gnutls-c++.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnutls-c++.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnutls-c++.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnutls-c++.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnutls-c++.x86_64

gnutls-c++.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgnutlsxx.so.28
/usr/lib64/libgnutlsxx.so.28.1.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnutls-c++.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.