How To Install libgo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgo.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgo.x86_64 is Go runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgo.x86_64`

This package contains Go shared library which is needed to run Go dynamically linked programs.

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

Install libgo.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 libgo.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgo.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgo.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgo.x86_64

libgo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgo.so.11
/usr/lib64/libgo.so.11.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/LICENSE.libgo
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/PATENTS.libgo
/usr/share/doc/libgo-7.3.1/README.libgo

References

libgo.x86_64 website

Summary

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