How To Install accountsservice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. accountsservice.x86_64 is D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account

Introduction

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

What is `accountsservice.x86_64`

The accountsservice project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.

We can use yum to install accountsservice.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install accountsservice.x86_64

How To Uninstall accountsservice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove accountsservice.x86_64

accountsservice.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.Accounts.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service
/usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice-0.6.45
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice-0.6.45/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice-0.6.45/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice-0.6.45/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa_IR/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
/var/lib/AccountsService
/var/lib/AccountsService/icons
/var/lib/AccountsService/users

References

accountsservice.x86_64 website

Summary

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