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

In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. avahi-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for avahi run-time use

Introduction

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

What is `avahi-libs.x86_64`

The avahi-libs package contains the libraries needed to run programs that use avahi.

We can use yum to install avahi-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 avahi-libs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install avahi-libs.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove avahi-libs.x86_64

avahi-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libavahi-client.so.3
/usr/lib64/libavahi-client.so.3.2.9
/usr/lib64/libavahi-common.so.3
/usr/lib64/libavahi-common.so.3.5.3

References

avahi-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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