How To Install libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 is Development tools for the dbusmenu libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64`

The libdbusmenu-tools package contains helper tools for developing applications that use libdbusmenu.

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

Install libdbusmenu-tools.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 libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64

libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/dbusmenu-bench
/usr/libexec/dbusmenu-testapp
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-tools-16.04.0
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu-tools-16.04.0/README.dbusmenu-bench
/usr/share/libdbusmenu
/usr/share/libdbusmenu/json
/usr/share/libdbusmenu/json/test-gtk-label.json

References

libdbusmenu-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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