How To Install bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 is LDAP back-end plug-in for BIND

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64`

This package provides an LDAP back-end plug-in for BIND. It features support for dynamic updates and internal caching, to lift the load off of your LDAP server.

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

Install bind-dyndb-ldap.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 bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64

How To Uninstall bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64

bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/bind/ldap.so
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1/example.ldif
/usr/share/doc/bind-dyndb-ldap-11.1/schema.ldif
/var/named/dyndb-ldap

References

bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-dyndb-ldap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.