How To Install dbus-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dbus-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for accessing D-BUS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dbus-libs.x86_64`

This package contains lowlevel libraries for accessing D-BUS.

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

Install dbus-libs.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 dbus-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dbus-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall dbus-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dbus-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dbus-libs.x86_64

dbus-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3
/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.14.14
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-libs-1.10.24
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-libs-1.10.24/COPYING

References

dbus-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.