How To Install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is cifs-utils-devel.x86_64
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains the header file necessary for building ID mapping plugins for cifs-utils.
We can use yum to install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64.
Install cifs-utils-devel.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 cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64
How To Uninstall cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove cifs-utils-devel.x86_64
cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/include/cifsidmap.h
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cifs-utils-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.