How To Install libappstream-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappstream-glib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libappstream-glib.x86_64 is Library for AppStream metadata

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappstream-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libappstream-glib.x86_64`

This library provides GObjects and helper methods to make it easy to read and write AppStream metadata. It also provides a simple DOM implementation that makes it easy to edit nodes and convert to and from the standardized XML representation.

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

Install libappstream-glib.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 libappstream-glib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libappstream-glib.x86_64

How To Uninstall libappstream-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libappstream-glib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libappstream-glib.x86_64

libappstream-glib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/appstream-compose
/usr/bin/appstream-util
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppStreamBuilder-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppStreamGlib-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libappstream-glib.so.8
/usr/lib64/libappstream-glib.so.8.0.10
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/appstream-util
/usr/share/doc/libappstream-glib-0.7.8
/usr/share/doc/libappstream-glib-0.7.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappstream-glib-0.7.8/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libappstream-glib-0.7.8/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libappstream-glib-0.7.8
/usr/share/licenses/libappstream-glib-0.7.8/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/appstream-glib.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/appstream-compose.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/appstream-util.1.gz

References

libappstream-glib.x86_64 website

Summary

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