How To Install libcmocka-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmocka-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libcmocka-static.x86_64 is Lightweight library to simplify and generalize unit tests for C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmocka-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libcmocka-static.x86_64

Static version of the cmocka library.

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

Install libcmocka-static.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 libcmocka-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcmocka-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libcmocka-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libcmocka-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libcmocka-static.x86_64

libcmocka-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libcmocka.a

References

Summary

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