How To Install libmicrohttpd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmicrohttpd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libmicrohttpd.x86_64 is Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications

Introduction

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

What is libmicrohttpd.x86_64

GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are * C library * API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant * Implementation is http 1.1 compliant * HTTP server can listen on multiple ports * Support for IPv6 * Support for incremental processing of POST data * Creates binary of only 25k (for now) * Three different threading models

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

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

sudo yum -y install libmicrohttpd.x86_64

How To Uninstall libmicrohttpd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libmicrohttpd.x86_64

libmicrohttpd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.10
/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.10.22.0
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd-0.9.33
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd-0.9.33/COPYING

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Summary

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