How to Install and Uninstall binutils.x86_64 Package on Amazon Linux 2

Last updated: November 15,2024

1. Install "binutils.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2


    
        
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                sudo yum makecache
            
                    
    
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                sudo yum install
            
                        
                binutils.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "binutils.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall binutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2:


    
        
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                sudo yum remove 
            
                        
                binutils.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo yum autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the binutils.x86_64 package on Amazon Linux 2

Loaded plugins: ovl, priorities
Available Packages
Name : binutils
Arch : x86_64
Version : 2.29.1
Release : 31.amzn2
Size : 5.8 M
Repo : amzn2-core/2/x86_64
Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities
URL : https://sourceware.org/binutils
License : GPLv3+
Description : Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
: creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of
: GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data),
: ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files),
: objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for
: displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating
: an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying
: detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the
: section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing
: printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and
: addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).