How To Install daxctl-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. daxctl-libs.i686 is Management library for “Device DAX” devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `daxctl-libs.i686`

Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory. daxctl-libs provides an enumeration / control API for these devices.

We can use yum to install daxctl-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daxctl-libs.i686.

Install daxctl-libs.i686 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 daxctl-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daxctl-libs.i686

How To Uninstall daxctl-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the daxctl-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove daxctl-libs.i686

daxctl-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libdaxctl.so.1
/usr/lib/libdaxctl.so.1.2.1
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs-64.1
/usr/share/doc/daxctl-libs-64.1/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs-64.1
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs-64.1/BSD-MIT
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs-64.1/CC0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-libs-64.1/COPYING

References

daxctl-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.