How To Install mythes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mythes.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mythes.x86_64 is A thesaurus library

Introduction

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

What is `mythes.x86_64`

MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured text data file and an index file with binary search to look up words and phrases and return information on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms.

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

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

sudo yum -y install mythes.x86_64

How To Uninstall mythes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove mythes.x86_64

mythes.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmythes-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmythes-1.2.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/mythes-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/mythes-1.2.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mythes-1.2.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mythes-1.2.3/README
/usr/share/mythes

References

mythes.x86_64 website

Summary

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