How To Install libassuan-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libassuan-devel.x86_64 is GnuPG IPC library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libassuan-devel.x86_64

This is the IPC static library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages. This package contains files needed to develop applications using libassuan.

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

Install libassuan-devel.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 libassuan-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libassuan-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libassuan-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libassuan-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libassuan-devel.x86_64

libassuan-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libassuan-config
/usr/include/libassuan2
/usr/include/libassuan2/assuan.h
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so
/usr/share/aclocal/libassuan.m4
/usr/share/info/assuan.info.gz

References

Summary

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