How To Install pps-tools-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pps-tools-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pps-tools-devel.x86_64 is LinuxPPS PPSAPI header file

Introduction

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

What is `pps-tools-devel.x86_64`

This package includes the header needed to compile PPSAPI (RFC-2783) applications.

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

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

sudo yum -y install pps-tools-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall pps-tools-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pps-tools-devel.x86_64

pps-tools-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/sys/timepps.h
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-devel-0
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-devel-0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pps-tools-devel-0/copyright

References

pps-tools-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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