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

In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-vim.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. protobuf-vim.x86_64 is Vim syntax highlighting for Google Protocol Buffers descriptions

Introduction

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

What is `protobuf-vim.x86_64`

This package contains syntax highlighting for Google Protocol Buffers descriptions in Vim editor

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

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

sudo yum -y install protobuf-vim.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove protobuf-vim.x86_64

protobuf-vim.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/proto.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/proto.vim

References

protobuf-vim.x86_64 website

Summary

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