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

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "pcre.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install pcre.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall pcre.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2:


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

Loaded plugins: ovl, priorities
Installed Packages
Name : pcre
Arch : x86_64
Version : 8.32
Release : 17.amzn2.0.2
Size : 1.4 M
Repo : installed
Summary : Perl-compatible regular expression library
URL : http://www.pcre.org/
License : BSD
Description : Perl-compatible regular expression library.
: PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that
: are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library
: libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling
: interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow
: Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style
: functions is called pcreposix.h.