How To Install pcre.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcre.x86_64 is Perl-compatible regular expression library

Introduction

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

What is `pcre.x86_64`

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of “wrapper” functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pcre.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcre.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pcre.x86_64

pcre.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib64/libpcre16.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcre16.so.0.2.0
/usr/lib64/libpcre32.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcre32.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.32/README

References

pcre.x86_64 website

Summary

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