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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libedit-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libedit

Introduction

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

What is `libedit-devel.x86_64`

This package contains development files for libedit.

We can use yum to install libedit-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 libedit-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libedit-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libedit-devel.x86_64

libedit-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/editline
/usr/include/editline/readline.h
/usr/include/histedit.h
/usr/lib64/libedit.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
/usr/share/doc/libedit-devel-3.0
/usr/share/doc/libedit-devel-3.0/fileman.c
/usr/share/doc/libedit-devel-3.0/tc1.c
/usr/share/doc/libedit-devel-3.0/wtc1.c
/usr/share/man/man3/editline.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_deletestr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_end.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_get.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_getc.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_gets.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_history.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_history_end.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_history_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_insertstr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_line.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_parse.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_push.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_reset.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_resize.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_set.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_source.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_tok_end.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_tok_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_tok_line.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_tok_reset.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/el_tok_str.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz

References

libedit-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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