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

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-sql.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cyrus-sasl-sql.x86_64 is SQL auxprop support for Cyrus SASL

Introduction

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

What is `cyrus-sasl-sql.x86_64`

The cyrus-sasl-sql package contains the Cyrus SASL plugin which supports using a RDBMS for storing shared secrets.

We can use yum to install cyrus-sasl-sql.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-sql.x86_64.

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

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

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

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

sudo yum remove cyrus-sasl-sql.x86_64

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

/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsql.so
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsql.so.3
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libsql.so.3.0.0

References

cyrus-sasl-sql.x86_64 website

Summary

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