How To Install libIDL-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libIDL-devel.x86_64
libIDL is a library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language). It can be used for both COM-style and CORBA-style IDL. This package contains the header files and libraries needed to write or compile programs that use libIDL.
We can use yum to install libIDL-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 libIDL-devel.x86_64.
Install libIDL-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 libIDL-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libIDL-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall libIDL-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libIDL-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libIDL-devel.x86_64
libIDL-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/libIDL-config-2
/usr/include/libIDL-2.0
/usr/include/libIDL-2.0/libIDL
/usr/include/libIDL-2.0/libIDL/IDL.h
/usr/lib64/libIDL-2.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libIDL-2.0.pc
/usr/share/info/libIDL2.info.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.