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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libevdev-devel.x86_64 is Kernel Evdev Device Wrapper Library Development Package

Introduction

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

What is `libevdev-devel.x86_64`

Kernel Evdev Device Wrapper Library Development Package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libevdev-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libevdev-devel.x86_64

libevdev-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/libevdev-1.0
/usr/include/libevdev-1.0/libevdev
/usr/include/libevdev-1.0/libevdev/libevdev-uinput.h
/usr/include/libevdev-1.0/libevdev/libevdev.h
/usr/lib64/libevdev.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libevdev.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/libevdev.3.gz

References

libevdev-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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