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

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-static.x86_64 is Static development files for protobuf

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-static.x86_64`

Static libraries for Protocol Buffers

We can use yum to install protobuf-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 protobuf-static.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-static.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-static.x86_64

protobuf-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libprotobuf.a
/usr/lib64/libprotoc.a

References

protobuf-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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