How To Install libtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtool.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libtool.x86_64 is The GNU Portable Library Tool

Introduction

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

What is `libtool.x86_64`

GNU Libtool is a set of shell scripts which automatically configure UNIX and UNIX-like systems to generically build shared libraries. Libtool provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using shared libraries. If you are developing programs which will use shared libraries, but do not use the rest of the GNU Autotools (such as GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake), you should install the libtool package. The libtool package also includes all files needed to integrate the GNU Portable Library Tool (libtool) and the GNU Libtool Dynamic Module Loader (ltdl) into a package built using the GNU Autotools (including GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake).

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

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

sudo yum -y install libtool.x86_64

How To Uninstall libtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libtool.x86_64

libtool.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libtool
/usr/bin/libtoolize
/usr/share/aclocal/argz.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.1996
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.1997
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.1998
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.1999
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2000
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2001
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2002
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2003
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2004
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2005
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2006
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2007
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2008
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2009
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/ChangeLog.2010
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/README
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libtool-2.4.2/TODO
/usr/share/info/libtool.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/libtool.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/libtool.info.gz
/usr/share/libtool
/usr/share/libtool/config
/usr/share/libtool/config/compile
/usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess
/usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub
/usr/share/libtool/config/depcomp
/usr/share/libtool/config/install-sh
/usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
/usr/share/libtool/config/missing
/usr/share/man/man1/libtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libtoolize.1.gz

References

libtool.x86_64 website

Summary

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