How To Install snappy-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is snappy-devel.x86_64

The snappy-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use snappy.

We can use yum to install snappy-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 snappy-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install snappy-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall snappy-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove snappy-devel.x86_64

snappy-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/snappy-c.h
/usr/include/snappy-sinksource.h
/usr/include/snappy-stubs-public.h
/usr/include/snappy.h
/usr/lib64/libsnappy.so
/usr/share/doc/snappy-devel-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/snappy-devel-1.1.0/format_description.txt
/usr/share/doc/snappy-devel-1.1.0/framing_format.txt

References

• snappy-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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