How To Install iniparser.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iniparser.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. iniparser.x86_64 is C library for parsing “INI-style” files

Introduction

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

What is `iniparser.x86_64`

iniParser is an ANSI C library to parse “INI-style” files, often used to hold application configuration information.

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

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

sudo yum -y install iniparser.x86_64

How To Uninstall iniparser.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove iniparser.x86_64

iniparser.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libiniparser.so.0
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iniparser-3.1/README

References

iniparser.x86_64 website

Summary

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