How To Install accountsservice-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. accountsservice-libs.x86_64 is Client-side library to talk to accountsservice

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is accountsservice-libs.x86_64

The accountsservice-libs package contains a library that can be used by applications that want to interact with the accountsservice daemon.

We can use yum to install accountsservice-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install accountsservice-libs.x86_64.

Install accountsservice-libs.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 accountsservice-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install accountsservice-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall accountsservice-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the accountsservice-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove accountsservice-libs.x86_64

accountsservice-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AccountsService-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libaccountsservice.so.0
/usr/lib64/libaccountsservice.so.0.0.0

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Summary

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