How To Install pcre2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcre2-tools.x86_64 is Auxiliary utilities for pcre2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcre2-tools.x86_64`

Utilities demonstrating PCRE2 capabilities like pcre2grep or pcre2test.

We can use yum to install pcre2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcre2-tools.x86_64.

Install pcre2-tools.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 pcre2-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcre2-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcre2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcre2-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcre2-tools.x86_64

pcre2-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pcre2grep
/usr/bin/pcre2test
/usr/share/man/man1/pcre2grep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pcre2test.1.gz

References

pcre2-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.