How To Install libquadmath.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquadmath.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libquadmath.x86_64 is GCC __float128 shared support library

Introduction

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

What is `libquadmath.x86_64`

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed for __float128 math support and for Fortran REAL*16 support.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libquadmath.x86_64

How To Uninstall libquadmath.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libquadmath.x86_64

libquadmath.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libquadmath.so.0
/usr/lib64/libquadmath.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/info/libquadmath.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/libquadmath-7.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libquadmath-7.3.1/COPYING.LIB.libquadmath

References

libquadmath.x86_64 website

Summary

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