How To Install mpfr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpfr-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mpfr-devel.x86_64 is Development tools A C library for mpfr library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpfr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is mpfr-devel.x86_64

Header files and documentation for using the MPFR multiple-precision floating-point library in applications. If you want to develop applications which will use the MPFR library, you’ll need to install the mpfr-devel package. You’ll also need to install the mpfr package.

We can use yum to install mpfr-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 mpfr-devel.x86_64.

Install mpfr-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 mpfr-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpfr-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall mpfr-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mpfr-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mpfr-devel.x86_64

mpfr-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/mpf2mpfr.h
/usr/include/mpfr.h
/usr/lib64/libmpfr.so
/usr/share/info/mpfr.info.gz

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Summary

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