How To Install newt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. newt-static.x86_64 is Newt windowing toolkit static library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install newt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `newt-static.x86_64`

The newt-static package contains the static version of the newt library. Install it if you need to link statically with libnewt.

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

Install newt-static.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 newt-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install newt-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall newt-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the newt-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove newt-static.x86_64

newt-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libnewt.a

References

newt-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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