How To Install nodejs-packaging.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs-packaging.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. nodejs-packaging.noarch is RPM Macros and Utilities for Node.js Packaging

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs-packaging.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `nodejs-packaging.noarch`

This package contains RPM macros and other utilities useful for packaging Node.js modules and applications in RPM-based distributions.

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

Install nodejs-packaging.noarch 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 nodejs-packaging.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nodejs-packaging.noarch

How To Uninstall nodejs-packaging.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the nodejs-packaging.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove nodejs-packaging.noarch

nodejs-packaging.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/nodejs.attr
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.nodejs
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs-fixdep
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs-setversion
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs-symlink-deps
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs.prov
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs.req
/usr/share/licenses/nodejs-packaging-17
/usr/share/licenses/nodejs-packaging-17/LICENSE
/usr/share/node/multiver_modules

References

nodejs-packaging.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs-packaging.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.