How To Install cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 is Shared libraries needed by applications which use Cyrus SASL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64`

The cyrus-sasl-lib package contains shared libraries which are needed by applications which use the Cyrus SASL library.

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

Install cyrus-sasl-lib.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 cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64

How To Uninstall cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64

cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sasl2
/usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.3
/usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib64/sasl2
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libanonymous.so
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libanonymous.so.3
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libanonymous.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsasldb.so
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsasldb.so.3
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsasldb.so.3.0.0
/usr/sbin/sasldblistusers2
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd2
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/README
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/advanced.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/appconvert.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/components.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/gssapi.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/index.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/install.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/macosx.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/mechanisms.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/options.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/plugprog.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/programming.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/readme.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/sysadmin.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/upgrading.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26/windows.html

References

cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-lib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.