How To Install highlight-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight-gui.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. highlight-gui.x86_64 is GUI for the hihghlight source code formatter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `highlight-gui.x86_64`

A Qt-based GUI for the highlight source code formatter source.

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

Install highlight-gui.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 highlight-gui.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install highlight-gui.x86_64

How To Uninstall highlight-gui.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the highlight-gui.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove highlight-gui.x86_64

highlight-gui.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/highlight-gui
/usr/share/applications/highlight.desktop
/usr/share/pixmaps/highlight.xpm

References

highlight-gui.x86_64 website

Summary

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